New upstream version 16.11.9upstream/16.11.9upstream-16.11-stable

Change-Id: Ia1ac246c53e5050b6a29d6952fb668ad6c782996
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs.c b/lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs.c
index 5504c6df..476b8c1d 100644
--- a/lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs.c
+++ b/lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs.c
@@ -160,6 +160,9 @@ rte_kvargs_process(const struct rte_kvargs *kvlist,
 	const struct rte_kvargs_pair *pair;
 	unsigned i;
 
+	if (kvlist == NULL)
+		return 0;
+
 	for (i = 0; i < kvlist->count; i++) {
 		pair = &kvlist->pairs[i];
 		if (key_match == NULL || strcmp(pair->key, key_match) == 0) {
diff --git a/lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs.h b/lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs.h
index ae9ae79f..83363a8d 100644
--- a/lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs.h
+++ b/lib/librte_kvargs/rte_kvargs.h
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ struct rte_kvargs *rte_kvargs_parse(const char *args, const char *valid_keys[]);
  * rte_kvargs_parse().
  *
  * @param kvlist
- *   The rte_kvargs structure
+ *   The rte_kvargs structure. No error if NULL.
  */
 void rte_kvargs_free(struct rte_kvargs *kvlist);
 
@@ -115,11 +115,10 @@ void rte_kvargs_free(struct rte_kvargs *kvlist);
  *
  * For each key/value association that matches the given key, calls the
  * handler function with the for a given arg_name passing the value on the
- * dictionary for that key and a given extra argument. If *kvlist* is NULL
- * function does nothing.
+ * dictionary for that key and a given extra argument.
  *
  * @param kvlist
- *   The rte_kvargs structure
+ *   The rte_kvargs structure. No error if NULL.
  * @param key_match
  *   The key on which the handler should be called, or NULL to process handler
  *   on all associations