[libvirt] [PATCH 5/5] don't check for NULL before calling virHashFree

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 01:22:41PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/18/2011 12:30 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> >>> -    if (doms->objs)
> >>> -        virHashFree(doms->objs, virDomainObjListDeallocator);
> >>> +    virHashFree(doms->objs, virDomainObjListDeallocator);
> >>
> >> I tried adding --name=virHashFree to the useless_free_options variable
> >> in cfg.mk, to see if that would prevent regressions.  However, it
> >> appears that this two-argument free-like function is not picked up by
> >> the heuristics in the useless-if-before-free script (it only works on
> >> one-argument functions).
> 
> > Right.  useless-if-before-free deliberately detects only
> > one-argument free-like functions.
> 
> An even better idea - as long as we're improving hash.h, why not fix
> things to pass the destructor in the Create call, rather than the Free
> call.  Then freeing is a one-argument operation, using the destructor
> callback registered inside the virHash object, rather than a
> two-argument operation requiring the caller to pass in the destructor.
> At which point, we've defined away the problem of useless-if-before-free.

Yes, that makes alot more sense as an API design

Daniel
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