[PATCH 1/4] cfgfile: remove dead code

Chengwen Feng fengchengwen at huawei.com
Tue Feb 20 04:58:37 CET 2024


This memchr() will never return NULL because rte_cfgfile_load() function
will skip lines without useful content.

Fixes: 74e0d3a17461 ("cfgfile: fix null pointer dereference in parsing")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen at huawei.com>
---
 lib/cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c b/lib/cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c
index 6a5e4fd942..d7aa38b56f 100644
--- a/lib/cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c
+++ b/lib/cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c
@@ -223,12 +223,6 @@ rte_cfgfile_load_with_params(const char *filename, int flags,
 
 			split[0] = buffer;
 			split[1] = memchr(buffer, '=', len);
-			if (split[1] == NULL) {
-				CFG_LOG(ERR,
-					"line %d - no '=' character found",
-					lineno);
-				goto error1;
-			}
 			*split[1] = '\0';
 			split[1]++;
 
-- 
2.17.1



More information about the dev mailing list