}
 
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
-/* In IPv6 packets, besides subtracting the pseudo header checksum,
- * we also compute/add the IP header checksum which
- * is not added by the HW.
+/* In IPv6 packets, hw_checksum lacks 6 bytes from IPv6 header:
+ * 4 first bytes : priority, version, flow_lbl
+ * and 2 additional bytes : nexthdr, hop_limit.
  */
 static int get_fixed_ipv6_csum(__wsum hw_checksum, struct sk_buff *skb,
                               struct ipv6hdr *ipv6h)
 {
        __u8 nexthdr = ipv6h->nexthdr;
-       __wsum csum_pseudo_hdr = 0;
+       __wsum temp;
 
        if (unlikely(nexthdr == IPPROTO_FRAGMENT ||
                     nexthdr == IPPROTO_HOPOPTS ||
                     nexthdr == IPPROTO_SCTP))
                return -1;
-       hw_checksum = csum_add(hw_checksum, (__force __wsum)htons(nexthdr));
 
-       csum_pseudo_hdr = csum_partial(&ipv6h->saddr,
-                                      sizeof(ipv6h->saddr) + sizeof(ipv6h->daddr), 0);
-       csum_pseudo_hdr = csum_add(csum_pseudo_hdr, (__force __wsum)ipv6h->payload_len);
-       csum_pseudo_hdr = csum_add(csum_pseudo_hdr,
-                                  (__force __wsum)htons(nexthdr));
-
-       skb->csum = csum_sub(hw_checksum, csum_pseudo_hdr);
-       skb->csum = csum_add(skb->csum, csum_partial(ipv6h, sizeof(struct ipv6hdr), 0));
+       /* priority, version, flow_lbl */
+       temp = csum_add(hw_checksum, *(__wsum *)ipv6h);
+       /* nexthdr and hop_limit */
+       skb->csum = csum_add(temp, (__force __wsum)*(__be16 *)&ipv6h->nexthdr);
        return 0;
 }
 #endif