From: Elena Agostini <eagostini@nvidia.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] gpudev: return EINVAL if invalid input pointer for free and unregister
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 16:22:47 +0000 [thread overview]
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> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Date: Thursday, 18 November 2021 at 17:21
> To: Elena Agostini <eagostini@nvidia.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org <dev@dpdk.org>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] gpudev: return EINVAL if invalid input pointer for free and unregister
> External email: Use caution opening links or attachments>
>
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 19:28:02 +0000
> <eagostini@nvidia.com> wrote:>
> > diff --git a/lib/gpudev/gpudev.c b/lib/gpudev/gpudev.c
> > index 2b174d8bd5..97575ed979 100644
> > --- a/lib/gpudev/gpudev.c
> > +++ b/lib/gpudev/gpudev.c
> > @@ -576,6 +576,11 @@ rte_gpu_mem_free(int16_t dev_id, void *ptr)
> > return -rte_errno;
> > }
> >
> > + if (ptr == NULL) {
> > + rte_errno = EINVAL;
> > + return -rte_errno;
> > + }
> > +>
> The convention for free(), and rte_free() is that calling free
> with a NULL pointer is a nop. Why not follow those?>
> This would keep programmers from having to view GPU as a
> special case.
Please look at v2 here https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20211118203354.25355-1-eagostini@nvidia.com/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-18 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-18 19:28 eagostini
2021-11-18 16:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
2021-11-18 16:22 ` Elena Agostini [this message]
2021-11-18 20:19 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2021-11-19 9:34 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-11-19 9:56 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-24 17:24 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2021-11-24 18:04 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-12-01 21:37 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2021-12-02 7:18 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-12-02 12:33 ` Morten Brørup
2021-12-02 13:01 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2021-12-02 13:56 ` Morten Brørup
2021-12-03 10:37 ` Morten Brørup
2021-12-08 17:34 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2021-12-08 18:40 ` Morten Brørup
2021-12-09 19:43 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2021-12-08 17:27 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2021-11-19 10:15 ` Bruce Richardson
2021-11-18 20:33 ` [PATCH v2] gpudev: free and unregister return gracefully if input pointer is NULL eagostini
2021-11-22 18:24 ` [PATCH v3] gpudev: manage NULL pointer eagostini
2021-11-22 11:23 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-22 11:34 ` Elena Agostini
2021-11-22 11:51 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-22 23:52 ` [PATCH v4] " eagostini
2021-11-22 23:55 ` [PATCH v5] " eagostini
2021-11-22 16:01 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-11-23 0:15 ` [PATCH v6] " eagostini
2021-11-23 0:42 ` [PATCH v7] " eagostini
2021-11-24 8:40 ` Thomas Monjalon
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