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* [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal/linuxapp: check mmap return value MAP_FAILED
@ 2017-08-15 20:53 Seth Howell
  2017-08-28 21:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Seth Howell
  2017-08-28 21:49 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] " Seth Howell
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Seth Howell @ 2017-08-15 20:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dev; +Cc: Seth Howell

If mmap fails, it will return the value MAP_FAILED. Checking for this return
code allows us to properly identify mmap failures and report them as such
to the calling function.

Signed-off-by: Seth Howell <seth.howell@intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
index 5279128..ba76b02 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal_memory.c
@@ -716,6 +716,8 @@ create_shared_memory(const char *filename, const size_t mem_size)
 	}
 	retval = mmap(NULL, mem_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
 	close(fd);
+	if (retval == MAP_FAILED)
+	    return NULL;
 	return retval;
 }
 
-- 
2.9.5

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