From patchwork Fri Jan 27 14:56:43 2017 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Aaron Conole X-Patchwork-Id: 20030 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@dpdk.org Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39C745A44; Fri, 27 Jan 2017 15:57:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0DD13B5 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2017 15:57:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4ED367E9DB for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:57:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dhcp-25-97.bos.redhat.com (ovpn-117-179.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.117.179]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v0REvAmM010562 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2017 09:57:17 -0500 From: Aaron Conole To: dev@dpdk.org Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 09:56:43 -0500 Message-Id: <1485529023-5486-6-git-send-email-aconole@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1485529023-5486-1-git-send-email-aconole@redhat.com> References: <1485529023-5486-1-git-send-email-aconole@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.22 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.26]); Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:57:18 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 05/25] eal: failure to parse args returns error X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 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 --- lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c index f139558..413be16 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 &&