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From: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: "Richardson,
	Bruce" <bruce.richardson-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
	"De Lara Guarch,
	Pablo"
	<pablo.de.lara.guarch-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
	"dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org"
	<dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] string: fix potential seg fault on snprintf
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:41:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53B114C5.2050608@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59AF69C657FD0841A61C55336867B5B02CF0DEA1-kPTMFJFq+rELt2AQoY/u9bfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>

Hello Bruce,

On 06/27/2014 06:36 PM, Richardson, Bruce wrote:
> Famous last words include "that could never happen!" :-)
> Since this is not a performance critical piece of code, it does not hurt to leave the Null-check in, and get the additional safety of checking for invalid inputs.

The "it does not hurt" should not be an argument to keep a patch.
If we follow your reasoning, we should also add tests of
RTE_LOG(..., NULL, ...), rte_eth_dev_*(NULL, ...), ...

In this particular case, giving a NULL argument is meaningless because
the semantic of the function is precisely to write something in the
buffer. Moreover, as I already said, this function is not called by the
user directly.

Regards,
Olivier

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-30  7:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-27 11:04 [PATCH] string: fix potential seg fault on snprintf Pablo de Lara
     [not found] ` <1403867097-18848-1-git-send-email-pablox.de.lara.guarch-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-06-27 11:30   ` Olivier MATZ
     [not found]     ` <53AD55BB.8090807-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-06-27 12:13       ` De Lara Guarch, Pablo
     [not found]         ` <E115CCD9D858EF4F90C690B0DCB4D8971A790399-kPTMFJFq+rELt2AQoY/u9bfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-06-27 12:34           ` Olivier MATZ
     [not found]             ` <53AD64D3.9000100-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-06-27 16:36               ` Richardson, Bruce
     [not found]                 ` <59AF69C657FD0841A61C55336867B5B02CF0DEA1-kPTMFJFq+rELt2AQoY/u9bfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-06-30  7:41                   ` Olivier MATZ [this message]
     [not found]                     ` <53B114C5.2050608-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-06-30 16:48                       ` Richardson, Bruce

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