03/04/2019 18:07, Mohammad Abdul Awal:
> Null value for parameter name will cause segfault for the
> strnlen and strcmp functions.
I'm not sure we want such obvious checks for all APIs.
Here I would say yes.
> Fixes: 0b33b68d12 ("ethdev: export allocate function")
> Fixes: 942661004c ("ethdev: export secondary attach function")
> Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Mohammad Abdul Awal <mohammad.abdul.a...@intel.com>
> ---
> --- a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev.c
> @@ -440,6 +440,11 @@ rte_eth_dev_allocate(const char *name)
> struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev = NULL;
> size_t name_len;
>
> + if (name == NULL) {
> + RTE_ETHDEV_LOG(ERR, "Null pointer is specified\n");
This is a very generic error message.
It might be "Fail to allocate port with empty name"
> @@ -492,6 +497,11 @@ rte_eth_dev_attach_secondary(const char *name)
> uint16_t i;
> struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev = NULL;
>
> + if (name == NULL) {
> + RTE_ETHDEV_LOG(ERR, "Null pointer is specified\n");
"Fail to attach port with empty name"
