[libvirt] [PATCH] (qemuTeardownDiskCgroup): avoid dead code

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Tue May 18 14:20:19 UTC 2010


On 05/17/2010 11:40 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 05/17/2010 02:52 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> It's a good thing the latter while loop condition
>>> could never be true -- otherwise it'd be an infloop.
>>>
>>>      char *path = disk->src;
>>>      int ret = -1;
>>>
>>> -    while (path != NULL) {
>>> +    do {
>>>          virStorageFileMetadata meta;
>>>          int rc;
>>>
>>>          VIR_DEBUG("Process path %s for disk", path);
>> ...
>>>          path = meta.backingStore;
>>>      } while (path != NULL);
>>
>> Are we sure disk->src is guaranteed to be non-NULL on entry, or would
>> have been better to rewrite this as while{}/*nothing*/ instead of do{}while?
> 
> You're right.
> disk->src may be NULL, as attested by surrounding code that tests for it
> via NULLSTR upon failure of these functions.
> Thanks!
> 
> Here's a better patch:

ACK to v2.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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