test: check thread creation

There was a call for thread create function without result check.
Add result check and message print out after failure.

Fixes: 086eb64db39e ("test/pdump: add unit test for pdump library")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Chengwen Feng <fengchengwen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Min Hu (Connor) <humin29@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan@intel.com>

diff --git a/app/test/process.h b/app/test/process.h
index 27f1b1c0e6e559779b37e0f0e0d1cc367d653533..a09a088477ad9e7815a4bee5b0e7949cc94e1d6e 100644 (file)
--- a/app/test/process.h
+++ b/app/test/process.h
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ process_dup(const char *const argv[], int numargs, const char *env_value)
 #ifdef RTE_LIB_PDUMP
 #ifdef RTE_NET_RING
        pthread_t thread;
+       int rc;
 #endif
 #endif
 
@@ -126,8 +127,13 @@ process_dup(const char *const argv[], int numargs, const char *env_value)
        /* parent process does a wait */
 #ifdef RTE_LIB_PDUMP
 #ifdef RTE_NET_RING
-       if ((strcmp(env_value, "run_pdump_server_tests") == 0))
-               pthread_create(&thread, NULL, &send_pkts, NULL);
+       if ((strcmp(env_value, "run_pdump_server_tests") == 0)) {
+               rc = pthread_create(&thread, NULL, &send_pkts, NULL);
+               if (rc != 0) {
+                       rte_panic("Cannot start send pkts thread: %s\n",
+                                 strerror(rc));
+               }
+       }
 #endif
 #endif