[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] net: new ipv6 header extension parsing function

[Marcin Smoczynski]

Introduce new function for IPv6 header extension parsing able to
determine extension length and next protocol number.

This function is helpful when implementing IPv6 header traversing.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Smoczynski <marcinx.smoczynski at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h b/lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h
index ae3b7e730..c2c67b85d 100644
--- a/lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h
+++ b/lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h
@@ -428,6 +428,55 @@ rte_ipv6_udptcp_cksum(const struct rte_ipv6_hdr *ipv6_hdr, const void *l4_hdr)
 	return (uint16_t)cksum;
 }
 
+/* IPv6 fragmentation header size */
+#define RTE_IPV6_FRAG_HDR_SIZE 8
+
+/**
+ * Parse next IPv6 header extension
+ *
+ * This function checks if proto number is an IPv6 extensions and parses its
+ * data if so, providing information on next header and extension length.
+ *
+ * @param p
+ *   Pointer to an extension raw data.
+ * @param proto
+ *   Protocol number extracted from the "next header" field from
+ *   the IPv6 header or the previous extension.
+ * @param ext_len
+ *   Extension data length.
+ * @return
+ *   next protocol number if proto is an IPv6 extension, -EINVAL otherwise
+ */
+static inline int __rte_experimental
+rte_ipv6_get_next_ext(uint8_t *p, int proto, size_t *ext_len)
+{
+	int next_proto;
+
+	switch (proto) {
+	case IPPROTO_AH:
+		next_proto = *p++;
+		*ext_len = (*p + 2) * sizeof(uint32_t);
+		break;
+
+	case IPPROTO_HOPOPTS:
+	case IPPROTO_ROUTING:
+	case IPPROTO_DSTOPTS:
+		next_proto = *p++;
+		*ext_len = (*p + 1) * sizeof(uint64_t);
+		break;
+
+	case IPPROTO_FRAGMENT:
+		next_proto = *p;
+		*ext_len = RTE_IPV6_FRAG_HDR_SIZE;
+		break;
+
+	default:
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
+	return next_proto;
+}
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif
-- 
2.17.1