For safety, add NULL checks to each of the public APIs to avoid crashes
in the library. Even though NULL values are likely symptoms of a wider
problem, this is not a datapath library so there is no harm in taking a
few cycles for additional parameter checking.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <[email protected]>
---
 lib/cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c b/lib/cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c
index c495bdf6ae..25fc792274 100644
--- a/lib/cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c
+++ b/lib/cfgfile/rte_cfgfile.c
@@ -198,6 +198,10 @@ rte_cfgfile_load_with_params(const char *filename, int 
flags,
                return NULL;
 
        cfg = rte_cfgfile_create(flags);
+       if (cfg == NULL) {
+               fclose(f);
+               return NULL;
+       }
 
        while (fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), f) != NULL) {
                char *pos;
@@ -506,6 +510,9 @@ rte_cfgfile_num_sections(struct rte_cfgfile *cfg, const 
char *sectionname,
        int num_sections = 0;
        int i;
 
+       if (cfg == NULL)
+               return -1;
+
        if (sectionname == NULL)
                return cfg->num_sections;
 
@@ -523,8 +530,14 @@ rte_cfgfile_sections(struct rte_cfgfile *cfg, char 
*sections[],
 {
        int i;
 
-       for (i = 0; i < cfg->num_sections && i < max_sections; i++)
+       if (cfg == NULL || sections == NULL || max_sections < 0)
+               return -1;
+
+       for (i = 0; i < cfg->num_sections && i < max_sections; i++) {
+               if (sections[i] == NULL)
+                       return -1;
                strlcpy(sections[i], cfg->sections[i].name, CFG_NAME_LEN);
+       }
 
        return i;
 }
@@ -533,6 +546,9 @@ RTE_EXPORT_SYMBOL(rte_cfgfile_has_section)
 int
 rte_cfgfile_has_section(struct rte_cfgfile *cfg, const char *sectionname)
 {
+       if (cfg == NULL || sectionname == NULL)
+               return 0;
+
        return _get_section(cfg, sectionname) != NULL;
 }
 
@@ -541,6 +557,9 @@ int
 rte_cfgfile_section_num_entries(struct rte_cfgfile *cfg,
        const char *sectionname)
 {
+       if (cfg == NULL || sectionname == NULL)
+               return -1;
+
        const struct rte_cfgfile_section *s = _get_section(cfg, sectionname);
        if (s == NULL)
                return -1;
@@ -552,6 +571,9 @@ int
 rte_cfgfile_section_num_entries_by_index(struct rte_cfgfile *cfg,
        char *sectionname, int index)
 {
+       if (cfg == NULL || sectionname == NULL)
+               return -1;
+
        if (index < 0 || index >= cfg->num_sections)
                return -1;
 
@@ -566,6 +588,10 @@ rte_cfgfile_section_entries(struct rte_cfgfile *cfg, const 
char *sectionname,
                struct rte_cfgfile_entry *entries, int max_entries)
 {
        int i;
+
+       if (cfg == NULL || sectionname == NULL || entries == NULL)
+               return -1;
+
        const struct rte_cfgfile_section *sect = _get_section(cfg, sectionname);
        if (sect == NULL)
                return -1;
@@ -583,6 +609,9 @@ rte_cfgfile_section_entries_by_index(struct rte_cfgfile 
*cfg, int index,
        int i;
        const struct rte_cfgfile_section *sect;
 
+       if (cfg == NULL || sectionname == NULL || entries == NULL)
+               return -1;
+
        if (index < 0 || index >= cfg->num_sections)
                return -1;
        sect = &cfg->sections[index];
@@ -598,6 +627,10 @@ rte_cfgfile_get_entry(struct rte_cfgfile *cfg, const char 
*sectionname,
                const char *entryname)
 {
        int i;
+
+       if (cfg == NULL || sectionname == NULL || entryname == NULL)
+               return NULL;
+
        const struct rte_cfgfile_section *sect = _get_section(cfg, sectionname);
        if (sect == NULL)
                return NULL;
-- 
2.51.0

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