TL/MLX5: fix IPv6 address conversion in inet_ntop #928
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What
This commit fixes the conversion of binary IPv6 address into the human-readable string using
inet_ntop
.Why ?
In our testing environment, the debug output of MLX5 TL prints garbage IPv6 addresses during the multicast initialization/teardown phase.
How ?
Pass
sin6_addr
field of typestruct in6_addr
that is the part of thesockaddr_in6
structure, as specified in https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/inet_ntop.3.html