[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix modify field action order for MAC

[Raslan Darawsheh]

Hi,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Kozyrev <akozyrev at nvidia.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2021 5:43 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org; Raslan Darawsheh <rasland at nvidia.com>; Slava
> Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad <matan at nvidia.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix modify field action order for MAC
> 
> MAC addresses are split into 2 parts inside Mellanox NIC:
> bits 0-15 are separate from bits 16-47. That makes a copy
> from another packet field tricky because any other field
> is aligned to 32 bits, not 16. This causes unexpected
> results when using the MODIFY_FIELD action with MAC addresses.
> Track crossing MAC addresses boundary and arrange a proper
> order for the MODIFY_FIELD action involving MAC addresses.
> 
> Fixes: 641dbe4fb053 ("net/mlx5: support modify field flow action")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Kozyrev <akozyrev at nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>

Patch applied to next-net-mlx,

Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh