From: Hongzhi Guo <guohongz...@huawei.com>
RFC 768 for UDP specifies:
If the computed checksum is zero, it is transmitted as all ones.
An all zero transmitted checksum value means that the transmitter
generated no checksum.
RFC 793 for TCP has no such special treatment for the checksum of zero.
Signed-off-by: Hongzhi Guo <guohongz...@huawei.com>
---
lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h b/lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h
index 1ceb7b7..8bef313 100644
--- a/lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h
+++ b/lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h
@@ -324,8 +324,7 @@ rte_ipv4_phdr_cksum(const struct rte_ipv4_hdr *ipv4_hdr,
uint64_t ol_flags)
* @param l4_hdr
* The pointer to the beginning of the L4 header.
* @return
- * The complemented checksum to set in the IP packet
- * or 0 on error
+ * The complemented checksum to set in the IP packet.
*/
static inline uint16_t
rte_ipv4_udptcp_cksum(const struct rte_ipv4_hdr *ipv4_hdr, const void *l4_hdr)
@@ -344,7 +343,10 @@ rte_ipv4_udptcp_cksum(const struct rte_ipv4_hdr *ipv4_hdr,
const void *l4_hdr)
cksum = ((cksum & 0xffff0000) >> 16) + (cksum & 0xffff);
cksum = (~cksum) & 0xffff;
- if (cksum == 0)
+ /* For Udp, if the computed checksum is zero,
+ * it is transmitted as all ones.RFC768
+ */
+ if (cksum == 0 && ipv4_hdr->next_proto_id == IPPROTO_UDP)
cksum = 0xffff;
return (uint16_t)cksum;
@@ -436,7 +438,10 @@ rte_ipv6_udptcp_cksum(const struct rte_ipv6_hdr *ipv6_hdr,
const void *l4_hdr)
cksum = ((cksum & 0xffff0000) >> 16) + (cksum & 0xffff);
cksum = (~cksum) & 0xffff;
- if (cksum == 0)
+ /* For Udp, if the computed checksum is zero,
+ * it is transmitted as all ones.RFC768
+ */
+ if (cksum == 0 && ipv6_hdr->proto == IPPROTO_UDP)
cksum = 0xffff;
return (uint16_t)cksum;
--
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