[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net: fix checksum on big endian CPUs

[Hongzhi Guo]

With current code, the checksum of odd-length buffers is wrong on
big endian CPUs: the last byte is not properly summed to the
accumulator.

Fix this by left-shifting the remaining byte by 8. For instance,
if the last byte is 0x42, we should add 0x4200 to the accumulator
on big endian CPUs.

This change is similar to what is suggested in Errata 3133 of
RFC 1071.

Fixes: 6006818cfb26("net: new checksum functions")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Hongzhi Guo <guohongzhi1 at huawei.com>
---
v2:
* Explain the logic in the commit log
* Fixed commit title
---
---
 lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h b/lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h
index 292f63fd7..4fb0e314a 100644
--- a/lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h
+++ b/lib/librte_net/rte_ip.h
@@ -139,8 +139,11 @@ __rte_raw_cksum(const void *buf, size_t len, uint32_t sum)
 	}
 
 	/* if length is in odd bytes */
-	if (len == 1)
-		sum += *((const uint8_t *)u16_buf);
+	if (len == 1) {
+		uint16_t left = 0;
+		*(uint8_t *)&left = *(const uint8_t *)u16_buf;
+		sum += left;
+	}
 
 	return sum;
 }
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