From 15bb21aa60d0ea8b226b4c1fb4bdaf6d892b159a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Coyle Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 13:39:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] cryptodev: add comments for DOCSIS protocol Add a note to the rte_crypto_sym_op->auth.data fields to state that for DOCSIS security protocol, these are used to specify the offset and length of data over which the CRC is calculated. Signed-off-by: David Coyle Signed-off-by: Mairtin o Loingsigh Acked-by: Akhil Goyal Acked-by: Pablo de Lara --- lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_crypto_sym.h | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_crypto_sym.h b/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_crypto_sym.h index da961a19d2..f29c98051f 100644 --- a/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_crypto_sym.h +++ b/lib/librte_cryptodev/rte_crypto_sym.h @@ -705,6 +705,14 @@ struct rte_crypto_sym_op { * For KASUMI @ RTE_CRYPTO_AUTH_KASUMI_F9, * this offset should be such that * data to authenticate starts at COUNT. + * + * @note + * For DOCSIS security protocol, this + * offset is the DOCSIS header length + * and, therefore, also the CRC offset + * i.e. the number of bytes into the + * packet at which CRC calculation + * should begin. */ uint32_t length; /**< The message length, in bytes, of the source @@ -723,6 +731,12 @@ struct rte_crypto_sym_op { * the length should include the COUNT, * FRESH, message, direction bit and padding * (to be multiple of 8 bits). + * + * @note + * For DOCSIS security protocol, this + * is the CRC length i.e. the number of + * bytes in the packet over which the + * CRC should be calculated */ } data; /**< Data offsets and length for authentication */ -- 2.20.1