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* [dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net: fix comment in IPv6 header
@ 2021-03-08  6:51 Ivan Malov
  2021-03-12 13:34 ` Ferruh Yigit
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ivan Malov @ 2021-03-08  6:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dev; +Cc: stable, Andrew Rybchenko, Olivier Matz, David Marchand

The comment got it wrong. The payload length field
does not include the fixed IPv6 header size.

Fixes: 7eca7f7fd09d ("net: add missing endianness annotations")
Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Ivan Malov <ivan.malov@oktetlabs.ru>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>
---
 lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h b/lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h
index 212ff2c4fd..b59c4d67a3 100644
--- a/lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h
+++ b/lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ rte_ipv4_udptcp_cksum(const struct rte_ipv4_hdr *ipv4_hdr, const void *l4_hdr)
  */
 struct rte_ipv6_hdr {
 	rte_be32_t vtc_flow;	/**< IP version, traffic class & flow label. */
-	rte_be16_t payload_len;	/**< IP packet length - includes header size */
+	rte_be16_t payload_len;	/**< IP payload size, including ext. headers */
 	uint8_t  proto;		/**< Protocol, next header. */
 	uint8_t  hop_limits;	/**< Hop limits. */
 	uint8_t  src_addr[16];	/**< IP address of source host. */
-- 
2.20.1


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