It's possible that the application could take a corrective action here,
and either prompt the user for different arguments, or at least perform
a better logging. Exiting this early prevents any useful information
gathering from the application layer.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com>
---
lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index ff70107..1c371f6 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -773,8 +773,11 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
}
fctret = eal_parse_args(argc, argv);
- if (fctret < 0)
- exit(1);
+ if (fctret < 0) {
+ RTE_LOG (ERR, EAL, "Invalid 'command line' arguments\n");
+ errno = EINVAL;
+ return -1;
+ }
if (internal_config.no_hugetlbfs == 0 &&
internal_config.process_type != RTE_PROC_SECONDARY &&
--
2.7.4
