[PATCH] app/testpmd: remove useless check

[Wang, YuanX]

Hi Singh,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Singh, Aman Deep <aman.deep.singh at intel.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2022 5:37 PM
> To: Wang, YuanX <yuanx.wang at intel.com>; Zhang, Yuying
> <yuying.zhang at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Ding, Xuan <xuan.ding at intel.com>; Tang, Yaqi
> <yaqi.tang at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] app/testpmd: remove useless check
> 
> Thanks for the patch Yuan.
> 
> On 10/12/2022 7:59 PM, Yuan Wang wrote:
> > Protocol header sequence checking is supported in the ethdev library,
> > the application does not need to do it again.
> 
> I would like to rephrase the patch title to make it more specific.
> Like "remove useless check" to "remove unused parameter in rx hdr split"
> or something like that, to specify the patch.

Thank you for the correction, please feel free to fix when merging.

Thanks,
Yuan

> 
> > Coverity issue: 381396
> > Fixes: 52e2e7edcf48 ("app/testpmd: add protocol-based buffer split")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yuan Wang <yuanx.wang at intel.com>
> 
> > ---
> >   app/test-pmd/cmdline.c    | 6 ++----
> >   app/test-pmd/parameters.c | 2 +-
> >   app/test-pmd/testpmd.h    | 2 +-
> >   3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/app/test-pmd/cmdline.c b/app/test-pmd/cmdline.c index
> > 17be2de402..29e4b2329b 100644
> > --- a/app/test-pmd/cmdline.c
> > +++ b/app/test-pmd/cmdline.c
> > @@ -3440,7 +3440,7 @@ get_ptype(char *value)
> >
> >   unsigned int
> >   parse_hdrs_list(const char *str, const char *item_name, unsigned int
> max_items,
> > -				unsigned int *parsed_items, int
> check_hdrs_sequence)
> > +				unsigned int *parsed_items)
> >   {
> >   	unsigned int nb_item;
> >   	char *cur;
> > @@ -3462,8 +3462,6 @@ parse_hdrs_list(const char *str, const char
> *item_name, unsigned int max_items,
> >   		fprintf(stderr, "Number of %s = %u > %u (maximum
> items)\n",
> >   			item_name, nb_item + 1, max_items);
> >   	free(str2);
> > -	if (!check_hdrs_sequence)
> > -		return nb_item;
> >   	return nb_item;
> >   }
> >
> > @@ -3854,7 +3852,7 @@ cmd_set_rxhdrs_parsed(void *parsed_result,
> >
> >   	res = parsed_result;
> >   	nb_segs = parse_hdrs_list(res->values, "segment hdrs",
> > -				  MAX_SEGS_BUFFER_SPLIT, seg_hdrs, 0);
> > +				  MAX_SEGS_BUFFER_SPLIT, seg_hdrs);
> >   	if (nb_segs > 0)
> >   		set_rx_pkt_hdrs(seg_hdrs, nb_segs);
> >   	cmd_reconfig_device_queue(RTE_PORT_ALL, 0, 1); diff --git
> > a/app/test-pmd/parameters.c b/app/test-pmd/parameters.c index
> > ff760460ec..5b305c833c 100644
> > --- a/app/test-pmd/parameters.c
> > +++ b/app/test-pmd/parameters.c
> > @@ -1272,7 +1272,7 @@ launch_args_parse(int argc, char** argv)
> >   				nb_segs = parse_hdrs_list
> >   						(optarg, "rxpkt segments",
> >   						MAX_SEGS_BUFFER_SPLIT,
> > -						seg_hdrs, 0);
> > +						seg_hdrs);
> >   				if (nb_segs > 0)
> >   					set_rx_pkt_hdrs(seg_hdrs, nb_segs);
> >   				else
> > diff --git a/app/test-pmd/testpmd.h b/app/test-pmd/testpmd.h index
> > e65be323b8..0b99339df8 100644
> > --- a/app/test-pmd/testpmd.h
> > +++ b/app/test-pmd/testpmd.h
> > @@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ unsigned int parse_item_list(const char *str, const
> char *item_name,
> >   			unsigned int *parsed_items, int
> check_unique_values);
> >   unsigned int parse_hdrs_list(const char *str, const char *item_name,
> >   			unsigned int max_item,
> > -			unsigned int *parsed_items, int
> check_unique_values);
> > +			unsigned int *parsed_items);
> >   void launch_args_parse(int argc, char** argv);
> >   void cmd_reconfig_device_queue(portid_t id, uint8_t dev, uint8_t
> queue);
> >   void cmdline_read_from_file(const char *filename);