From 5e8c12ebdf2969389b32f8e85845ef1af6b304bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tyera Eulberg <tyera@solana.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 21:05:08 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Do not require default keypair to exist for bench-tps
 (#24356)

---
 bench-tps/src/cli.rs | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bench-tps/src/cli.rs b/bench-tps/src/cli.rs
index d80567a56..950640d49 100644
--- a/bench-tps/src/cli.rs
+++ b/bench-tps/src/cli.rs
@@ -306,7 +306,11 @@ pub fn extract_args(matches: &ArgMatches) -> Config {
         matches.value_of("identity").unwrap_or(""),
         &config.keypair_path,
     );
-    args.id = read_keypair_file(id_path).expect("could not parse identity path");
+    if let Ok(id) = read_keypair_file(id_path) {
+        args.id = id;
+    } else if matches.is_present("identity") {
+        panic!("could not parse identity path");
+    }
 
     if matches.is_present("tpu_client") {
         args.external_client_type = ExternalClientType::TpuClient;