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[dpdk-dev,v3,05/25] eal: failure to parse args returns error

Message ID 20170209142953.8167-6-aconole@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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ci/checkpatch success coding style OK
ci/Intel compilation fail Compilation issues

Commit Message

Aaron Conole Feb. 9, 2017, 2:29 p.m. UTC 
  It's possible that the application could take a corrective action here,
and either prompt the user for different arguments, or at least perform
a better logging.  Exiting this early prevents any useful information
gathering from the application layer.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index 8daa2be..a626774 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -774,8 +774,12 @@  rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
 	}
 
 	fctret = eal_parse_args(argc, argv);
-	if (fctret < 0)
-		exit(1);
+	if (fctret < 0) {
+		RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "Invalid 'command line' arguments\n");
+		rte_errno = EINVAL;
+		rte_atomic32_clear(&run_once);
+		return -1;
+	}
 
 	if (internal_config.no_hugetlbfs == 0 &&
 			internal_config.process_type != RTE_PROC_SECONDARY &&