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: sta...@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Ivan Malov <ivan.ma...@oktetlabs.ru>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybche...@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
