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From: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
To: Mesut Ali Ergin <mesut.a.ergin@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] kvargs: trim spaces at the beginning and end
 of key and values
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Hi,

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 10:41:07PM -0700, Mesut Ali Ergin wrote:
> When arguments delimited with RTE_KVARGS_PAIRS_DELIM happen to have
> spaces before and after the delimiter, the rte_kvargs_process() can not
> match them to the intended key. For example, the first argument below
> triggers the support-multi-driver handler as expected, but the second
> one silently fails to do so.
> 
> -w '84:00.0,support-multi-driver=1'
> -w '84:00.0, support-multi-driver=1'
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mesut Ali Ergin <mesut.a.ergin@intel.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs.c b/lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs.c
> index f7030c6..1f45bc6 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs.c
> @@ -10,6 +10,32 @@
>  
>  #include "rte_kvargs.h"
>  
> +
> +/* trim leading and trailing spaces */
> +static char *
> +trim_space(char *str)
> +{
> +	char *start, *end;
> +
> +	for (start = str; *start; start++) {
> +		if (!isspace((unsigned char) start[0]))
> +			break;
> +	}
> +
> +	for (end = start + strlen(start); end > start + 1; end--) {
> +		if (!isspace((unsigned char) end[-1]))
> +			break;
> +	}
> +
> +	*end = 0;
> +
> +	/* Shift from "start" to the beginning of the string */
> +	if (start > str)
> +		memmove(str, start, (end - start) + 1);
> +
> +	return str;
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * Receive a string with a list of arguments following the pattern
>   * key=value,key=value,... and insert them into the list.
> @@ -38,8 +64,10 @@ rte_kvargs_tokenize(struct rte_kvargs *kvlist, const char *params)
>  		if (i >= RTE_KVARGS_MAX)
>  			return -1;
>  
> -		kvlist->pairs[i].key = strtok_r(str, RTE_KVARGS_KV_DELIM, &ctx2);
> -		kvlist->pairs[i].value = strtok_r(NULL, RTE_KVARGS_KV_DELIM, &ctx2);
> +		kvlist->pairs[i].key = trim_space(strtok_r(str,
> +			RTE_KVARGS_KV_DELIM, &ctx2));
> +		kvlist->pairs[i].value = trim_space(strtok_r(NULL,
> +			RTE_KVARGS_KV_DELIM, &ctx2));
>  		if (kvlist->pairs[i].key == NULL ||
>  		    kvlist->pairs[i].value == NULL)
>  			return -1;

Having a space in the kwvargs strings like in your example
(-w '84:00.0, support-multi-driver=1') is wrong. I don't think we should
fix this in kvargs library.

I you feel it is necessary, we could potentially add a comment in the API
description to highlight this.


Thanks,
Olivier