[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu_driver.c: remove useless, warning-provoking test

Chris Lalancette clalance at redhat.com
Tue Jan 5 15:56:26 UTC 2010


On 01/05/2010 10:37 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Tools like coverity and maybe clang notice that we dereference
> uri_out, and then (later) test whether uri_out is NULL.
> Obviously one or the other must go.
> 
> Presuming that we will always pass a non-NULL uri_out arg to
> this function, I chose to mark that parameter as ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL.
> I removed the unnecessary test, too.
> 
> If anyone is concerned that a non-NULL (non-literal)
> value will be passed, I can also add an assertion.

The change you make below is correct.  uri_out can never be NULL
in the code we have today, so the additional check is useless.

ACK

-- 
Chris Lalancette




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