On 6/6/2020 4:46 AM, Wei Hu (Xavier) wrote:
> Currently, there are coverity defect warnings those were found from the
> public coverity.
> https://scan.coverity.com/projects/dpdk-data-plane-development-kit
>
> Coverity issue:
> In nic_stats_clear function:
> CID 358450 (#1 of 1): Argument cannot be negative (NEGATIVE_RETURNS)
> 5. negative_returns: ret is passed to a parameter that cannot be
> negative.
>
> CID 358449 (#1 of 1): Argument cannot be negative (NEGATIVE_RETURNS)
> 6. negative_returns: ret is passed to a parameter that cannot be
> negative.
>
> In nic_xstats_clear function:
> CID 358437 (#1 of 1): Argument cannot be negative (NEGATIVE_RETURNS)
> 6. negative_returns: ret is passed to a parameter that cannot be
> negative.
>
> CID 349913 (#1 of 1): Argument cannot be negative (NEGATIVE_RETURNS)
> 5. negative_returns: ret is passed to a parameter that cannot be
> negative.
Shortened above as following:
Coverity issue: 349913, 358437, 358449, 358450
>
> This patch fixes them by passing '-ret' to the function strerror() when ret
> is negative.
>
> Fixes: da328f7f115a ("ethdev: change xstats reset function to return int")
> Fixes: 9eb974221f44 ("app/testpmd: fix statistics after reset")
> Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Wei Hu (Xavier) <xavier.hu...@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>
Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.
> ---
> v2 -> v3:
> 1. replace the coverity warning infromation with the ones found
> from the public coverity in the commit log.
Thanks.
