[PATCH v3] validation: ipsec: populate packet with layer info

[asasidharan]

Populate the test packets with layer info

Signed-off-by: Vidya Sagar Velumuri vvelumuri@marvell.com
Signed-off-by: Aakash Sasidharan asasidharan@marvell.com
Change-Id: Ib1bfd36ddf03bb34a8661f1e02806e4dbfb19c69

[JannePeltonen]

What is the purpose of this change? Please provide some context and rationale in the commit message.

[asasidharan]

What is the purpose of this change?

Inline outbound processing would require parsed IP packet to help with the result packet length calculations. Otherwise per-packet re-parsing needs to be done by implementation.

[JannePeltonen]

Inline outbound processing would require parsed IP packet to help with the result packet length calculations.

The current ODP API does not require parsed IP packet for outbound IPsec operations. Quote from the API spec:

 * Each input packet must have a valid value for these metadata (other metadata
 * is ignored):
 * - L3 offset: Offset to the first byte of the (outmost) IP header
 * - L4 offset: Offset to the L4 header if L4 checksum offload is requested
 *
 * Additionally, input IP packet length (odp_packet_len() minus
 * odp_packet_l3_offset()) must match values in protocol headers.

API validation tests are for testing that an ODP implementation complies with the API spec. Since the current test code seems to use the API correctly, a test failure must be fixed in the ODP implementation being tested or through an ODP API specification change, not by simply changing the validation test to be easier for the implementation.

IOW, even if the current API might cause additional packet parsing in your implementation, you cannot ignore the API spec and change the validation test to make your implementation look compliant when it is not. Applications have to be able to rely on the behaviour specified in the API.