From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:46:55 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: parse-util: allow parse_pid() to work with NULL return parameter
X-Git-Tag: v254-rc1~655
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=91ce42f008764c3c6d8d72c5fb3b72d0945b7de2;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

parse-util: allow parse_pid() to work with NULL return parameter

That way the function becomes useful for validating pids formatted as
strings.
---

diff --git a/src/basic/parse-util.c b/src/basic/parse-util.c
index 3445d313076..a53cbc73b89 100644
--- a/src/basic/parse-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/parse-util.c
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ int parse_pid(const char *s, pid_t* ret_pid) {
         int r;
 
         assert(s);
-        assert(ret_pid);
 
         r = safe_atolu(s, &ul);
         if (r < 0)
@@ -64,7 +63,8 @@ int parse_pid(const char *s, pid_t* ret_pid) {
         if (!pid_is_valid(pid))
                 return -ERANGE;
 
-        *ret_pid = pid;
+        if (ret_pid)
+                *ret_pid = pid;
         return 0;
 }