[libvirt] [PATCH 6/7] storage_backend: Resolve Coverity issue

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:48:50AM -0400, John Ferlan wrote:
> On 07/11/2013 09:56 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:34:06AM -0400, John Ferlan wrote:
> >> The switch statement in 'virStorageBackendCreateQemuImgOpts' used the
> >> for loop end condition 'VIR_STORAGE_FILE_FEATURE_LAST' as a possible value,
> >> but since that cannot happen Coverity spits out a DEADCODE message. Adding
> >> the Coverity tag just removes the Coverity message
> >> ---
> >>  src/storage/storage_backend.c | 1 +
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/src/storage/storage_backend.c b/src/storage/storage_backend.c
> >> index 5d06eb6..8d5880e 100644
> >> --- a/src/storage/storage_backend.c
> >> +++ b/src/storage/storage_backend.c
> >> @@ -663,6 +663,7 @@ virStorageBackendCreateQemuImgOpts(char **opts,
> >>                      }
> >>                      break;
> >>  
> >> +                /* coverity[dead_error_begin] */
> >>                  case VIR_STORAGE_FILE_FEATURE_LAST:
> >>                      ;
> >>                  }
> > 
> > Wow, I tend to think that this code is terribly over engineered. We
> > really don't need to have a for loop with a nested case. The entire
> > thing can be replaced with something much simpler.
> > 
> > 
> > Daniel
> > 
> 
> It's not the only code that does something similar, but I was following
> how it was handled in other code. See:
> 
> src/lxc/lxc_driver.c  (search on dead_error_begin or LXC_NB_BLKIO_PARAM)
> 
> Should that code change as well?
> 
> For this code I wasn't sure if the future held more
> VIR_STORAGE_FILE_FEATURE options...

Well, ok, lets go with your first patch for now. ACK


Daniel
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