[PATCH 00/10] require checking ethdev get return value

Morten Brørup mb at smartsharesystems.com
Tue Oct 8 11:33:35 CEST 2024


> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:stephen at networkplumber.org]
> Sent: Friday, 4 October 2024 18.22
> 
> Several places flagged by Coverity and Codeql are from code that
> calls rte_eth_dev_info_get() but does not check the return value.
> If rte_eth_dev_info_get() returns an error, the device info is garbage.
> 
> This patch series uses the function attribute to force code
> to check the result or there will be a compiler warning.

This is slow path, so no performance issues.

For the series,
Acked-by: Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com>



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