On Wed, 2023-01-18 at 10:57 +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote: > I assume this is highlighted by a tool but in practice > > 'rte_vdev_device_name()' should not return NULL, and there are many > > other location this check is missing. That's correct. Warning was found by codeql static analysis tool. When I search the codebase, I do see a mixture of null checks and no checks for this function. We can ignore this patch, if you feel strongly against it.