netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Use ipv6_authlen for len in ipv6_skip

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Message-Id: <20170920.134538.445868998868419835.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:45:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     qasdfgtyuiop@...il.com
Cc:     trivial@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
        yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Use ipv6_authlen for len in ipv6_skip_exthdr

From: Xiang Gao <qasdfgtyuiop@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 12:18:17 -0400

> In ipv6_skip_exthdr, the lengh of AH header is computed manually
> as (hp->hdrlen+2)<<2. However, in include/linux/ipv6.h, a macro
> named ipv6_authlen is already defined for exactly the same job. This
> commit replaces the manual computation code with the macro.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiang Gao <qasdfgtyuiop@...il.com>

Applied, thank you.