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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: "Wiles, Roger Keith" <keith.wiles@windriver.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] rte_mempool_dump() crashes with NULL rte_mempool	pointer.
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 15:36:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8437457.lrG762lvxy@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140928122706.GB30445@localhost.localdomain>

2014-09-28 08:27, Neil Horman:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 05:28:44AM +0000, Wiles, Roger Keith wrote:
> > Check the FILE *f and rte_mempool *mp pointers for NULL and
> > return plus print out a message if RTE_LIBRTE_MEMPOOL_DEBUG is enabled.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@windriver.com>
> 
> I'm fine with this, as I think passing in a NULL mempool is clearly a bug here,
> thats worth panicing over, though I wouldnt mind if we did a RTE_VERIFY_WARN
> macro here instead using what I suggested in my other note

Passing a NULL mempool to rte_mempool_dump() is a bug in the application.
If you look elsewhere in the DPDK code, you'll see that it's not common to do
such check on input parameters.
A similar discussion already happened few months ago:
	http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-June/003900.html

-- 
Thomas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-01 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-27 18:35 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Wiles, Roger Keith
2014-09-28  0:37 ` Neil Horman
2014-09-28  1:10   ` Wiles, Roger Keith
2014-09-28  1:14   ` Wiles, Roger Keith
2014-09-28  1:55     ` Neil Horman
2014-09-28  5:38       ` Wiles, Roger Keith
2014-09-28 12:25         ` Neil Horman
2014-09-28  5:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Wiles, Roger Keith
2014-09-28 12:27   ` Neil Horman
2014-09-28 14:37     ` Wiles, Roger Keith
2014-10-01 13:36     ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2014-10-01 15:02       ` Neil Horman
2014-10-01 15:43         ` Bruce Richardson
2014-10-01 15:57           ` Wiles, Roger Keith
2014-10-01 16:01           ` Neil Horman
2014-10-01 16:05             ` Bruce Richardson
2014-10-02  7:47               ` Thomas Monjalon
2014-10-02 11:37                 ` Neil Horman
2014-11-27 16:32                   ` Thomas Monjalon

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