[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] net/eth.c: make eth_get_dev_by_name(NULL) safe

[Helmut Raiger]

On 07/05/2011 05:44 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday, July 04, 2011 06:29:51 helmut.raiger at hale.at wrote:
>> eth_get_dev_by_name() is not safe to use for devname being NULL
>> as it uses strcmp. This patch makes it return NULL if devname NULL
>> is passed.
> i'm not sure about this.  passing NULL is wrong, and the caller should catch
> that shouldnt it ?
> -mike
So what is your suggestion how to deal with it?

It returns:
"There is no ethernet device with name NULL"

This is pretty much the only thing it can return. The user of the 
function may handle this situation individually like:

printf("ethernet device '%s' not found\n, devname);
      --> "ethernet device '(NULL)' not found".

A panic on a NULL pointer de-reference is probably not helpful either.

Helmut


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