We currently do not check that a non option string has been passed to testpmd.
Example: $ ./master/app/testpmd --no-huge -m 512 --vdev net_null0 \ --vdev net_null1 -- -i nb-cores=2 --total-num-mbuf 2048 [...] testpmd> show config fwd io packet forwarding - ports=2 - cores=1 - streams=2 - NUMA support enabled, MP allocation mode: native Logical Core 1 (socket 0) forwards packets on 2 streams: RX P=0/Q=0 (socket 0) -> TX P=1/Q=0 (socket 0) peer=02:00:00:00:00:01 RX P=1/Q=0 (socket 0) -> TX P=0/Q=0 (socket 0) peer=02:00:00:00:00:00 Here nb-cores=2 is just ignored, while the (probably sleepy) user did not notice this. Validate that all strings passed to testpmd are part of a known option. After this patch: $ ./master/app/testpmd --no-huge -m 512 --vdev net_null0 \ --vdev net_null1 -- -i nb-cores=2 --total-num-mbuf 2048 [...] Invalid parameter: nb-cores=2 EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1 Cause: Command line incorrect While at it, when passing an unknown option, print the string that gets refused by getopt_long to help the user. Fixes: af75078fece3 ("first public release") Cc: sta...@dpdk.org Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com> --- This seems a bit dangerous to take this kind of change this late. Some "working fine" scripts might now report failures from testpmd because of garbage in the command line. Sending the patch anyway to see what others think about it. Changelog since v1: - fixed example in commitlog, --- app/test-pmd/parameters.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/app/test-pmd/parameters.c b/app/test-pmd/parameters.c index deca7a6828..2e7a504415 100644 --- a/app/test-pmd/parameters.c +++ b/app/test-pmd/parameters.c @@ -1363,12 +1363,19 @@ launch_args_parse(int argc, char** argv) break; default: usage(argv[0]); + printf("Invalid option: %s\n", argv[optind]); rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Command line is incomplete or incorrect\n"); break; } } + if (optind != argc) { + usage(argv[0]); + printf("Invalid parameter: %s\n", argv[optind]); + rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE, "Command line is incorrect\n"); + } + /* Set offload configuration from command line parameters. */ rx_mode.offloads = rx_offloads; tx_mode.offloads = tx_offloads; -- 2.23.0