[PATCH v2 3/6] app/testpmd: fix error message for invalid option

David Marchand david.marchand at redhat.com
Thu Mar 14 10:17:04 CET 2024


"""
The variable optind is the index of the next element to be processed in
argv.  The system initializes this value to 1.  The caller can reset it
to 1 to restart scanning of the same argv, or when scanning a new
argument vector.
"""

Hence, if an invalid option is passed through testpmd cmdline, getopt
returns '?' and increments optind to the next index in argv for a
subsequent call.
The message should log the previous index.

Fixes: 8fad2e5ab2c5 ("app/testpmd: report invalid command line parameter")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
---
 app/test-pmd/parameters.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/test-pmd/parameters.c b/app/test-pmd/parameters.c
index 3414a0d38c..a4c09e2a2b 100644
--- a/app/test-pmd/parameters.c
+++ b/app/test-pmd/parameters.c
@@ -1497,7 +1497,7 @@ launch_args_parse(int argc, char** argv)
 			break;
 		default:
 			usage(argv[0]);
-			fprintf(stderr, "Invalid option: %s\n", argv[optind]);
+			fprintf(stderr, "Invalid option: %s\n", argv[optind - 1]);
 			rte_exit(EXIT_FAILURE,
 				 "Command line is incomplete or incorrect\n");
 			break;
-- 
2.44.0



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