[dpdk-stable] patch 'net/ark: fix return value of null not checked' has been queued to stable release 17.05.1

[Yuanhan Liu <yliu@fridaylinux.org>]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 17.05.1

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 06/22/17. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

	--yliu

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>From d3701ee0a3849335b6da07b942c100dc257b5d99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Miller <john.miller@atomicrules.com>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 12:14:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] net/ark: fix return value of null not checked

[ upstream commit 2f3b88fbabc580ba9501be900ba9e7f95508ac09 ]

Coverity issue: 144517
Fixes: 1131cbf0fb2b ("net/ark: stub PMD for Atomic Rules Arkville")

Signed-off-by: John Miller <john.miller@atomicrules.com>
---
 drivers/net/ark/ark_ethdev.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ark/ark_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/ark/ark_ethdev.c
index f8fb359..017817e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ark/ark_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ark/ark_ethdev.c
@@ -899,6 +899,12 @@ process_file_args(const char *key, const char *value, void *extra_args)
 	int  size = 0;
 	int first = 1;
 
+	if (file == NULL) {
+		PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "Unable to open "
+			    "config file %s\n", value);
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	while (fgets(line, sizeof(line), file)) {
 		size += strlen(line);
 		if (size >= ARK_MAX_ARG_LEN) {
-- 
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