eal: do not panic on argument parsing error

[dpdk.git] / lib / librte_eal / linuxapp / eal / eal.c

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
index 161f726..a671ed4 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/eal/eal.c
@@ -785,8 +785,12 @@ rte_eal_init(int argc, char **argv)
        }
 
        fctret = eal_parse_args(argc, argv);
-       if (fctret < 0)
-               exit(1);
+       if (fctret < 0) {
+               rte_eal_init_alert("Invalid 'command line' arguments.");
+               rte_errno = EINVAL;
+               rte_atomic32_clear(&run_once);
+               return -1;
+       }
 
        if (internal_config.no_hugetlbfs == 0 &&
                        internal_config.process_type != RTE_PROC_SECONDARY &&