[Libguestfs] [PATCH] NFC: Cleanup iteration over fstab entries in inspect_fs_unix.c

Matthew Booth mbooth at redhat.com
Fri Nov 25 10:02:46 UTC 2011


On 11/24/2011 07:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 02:48:46PM +0000, Matthew Booth wrote:
>> Select non-comment labels using an augeas path to return the correct nodes in
>> the first instance, rather than applying a regular expression to all results.
>> Iterate over returned matches using a char** iterator.
>> Use asprintf() to ensure the path string buffer is the correct size.
>
> In general this is an obvious improvement.
>
>> +  for (char **entry = entries; *entry != NULL; entry++) {
>> +    if (asprintf (&augpath, "%s/spec", *entry) == -1) g->abort_cb();
>
> We have a safe_asprintf function defined already, and it would be
> better to use that.
>
> Is augpath supposed to be freed on the non-error path?
>
> spec and mp should be freed on the error path, but don't seem to be at
> the moment.

I was mis-remembering the definition of asprintf(). I thought it was 
doing a realloc() on the buffer you passed in, but reading it again I 
don't see that. I'll respin it.

Matt
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