+/**
+ * Suffix RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH with "-glue".
+ *
+ * This function performs a sanity check on RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH before
+ * suffixing its last component.
+ *
+ * @param buf[out]
+ * Output buffer, should be large enough otherwise NULL is returned.
+ * @param size
+ * Size of @p out.
+ *
+ * @return
+ * Pointer to @p buf or @p NULL in case suffix cannot be appended.
+ */
+static char *
+mlx5_glue_path(char *buf, size_t size)
+{
+ static const char *const bad[] = { "/", ".", "..", NULL };
+ const char *path = RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH;
+ size_t len = strlen(path);
+ size_t off;
+ int i;
+
+ while (len && path[len - 1] == '/')
+ --len;
+ for (off = len; off && path[off - 1] != '/'; --off)
+ ;
+ for (i = 0; bad[i]; ++i)
+ if (!strncmp(path + off, bad[i], (int)(len - off)))
+ goto error;
+ i = snprintf(buf, size, "%.*s-glue", (int)len, path);
+ if (i == -1 || (size_t)i >= size)
+ goto error;
+ return buf;
+error:
+ DRV_LOG(ERR,
+ "unable to append \"-glue\" to last component of"
+ " RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH (\"" RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH "\"),"
+ " please re-configure DPDK");
+ return NULL;
+}
+