Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/3] ethdev: fix null pointer checking

[Mohammad Abdul Awal <mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com>]

On 03/04/2019 18:32, David Marchand wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 6:53 PM Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com 
> <mailto:ferruh.yigit@intel.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 4/3/2019 5:41 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>     > On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 05:35:22PM +0100, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>     >> On 4/3/2019 5:27 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
>     >>> 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.
>     >>
>     >> These are internal functions, not APIs.  I am for verifying
>     input for
>     >> (all) APIs but not for internal functions, drivers should call
>     them and
>     >> they are in our control, if they are passing NULL we can fix
>     them :)
>     >>
>     > True, but if these are control path or init time code paths
>     rather than
>     > data path APIs, I don't see the harm in putting in the checks.
>
>     No harm from performance point of view, agree, but also looks
>     unnecessary to me.
>
>
> +1
> All the more when you see the following patches that adds input checks 
> in the faulty/too naive drivers.
>
>
> -- 
> David Marchand


Self-NACK to the patch considering the discussion above.