[libvirt] [PATCH v3 09/34] Adapt to VIR_STRDUP and VIR_STRNDUP in src/lxc/*

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Thu May 9 10:53:36 UTC 2013


On 09.05.2013 12:49, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 12:31:14PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> On 09.05.2013 10:15, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 04:01:04PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>>>> On 05/03/2013 08:53 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  src/lxc/lxc_cgroup.c     |  3 +--
>>>>>  src/lxc/lxc_conf.c       | 36 +++++++++++++++++-------------------
>>>>>  src/lxc/lxc_container.c  | 18 ++++--------------
>>>>>  src/lxc/lxc_controller.c | 20 ++++++++------------
>>>>>  src/lxc/lxc_driver.c     |  9 ++-------
>>>>>  src/lxc/lxc_process.c    |  7 ++++---
>>>>>  6 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/src/lxc/lxc_cgroup.c b/src/lxc/lxc_cgroup.c
>>>>> @@ -161,18 +161,18 @@ int lxcLoadDriverConfig(virLXCDriverPtr driver)
>>>>>      driver->securityRequireConfined = false;
>>>>>  
>>>>>      /* Set the container configuration directory */
>>>>> -    if ((driver->configDir = strdup(LXC_CONFIG_DIR)) == NULL)
>>>>> -        goto no_memory;
>>>>> -    if ((driver->stateDir = strdup(LXC_STATE_DIR)) == NULL)
>>>>> -        goto no_memory;
>>>>> -    if ((driver->logDir = strdup(LXC_LOG_DIR)) == NULL)
>>>>> -        goto no_memory;
>>>>> -    if ((driver->autostartDir = strdup(LXC_AUTOSTART_DIR)) == NULL)
>>>>> -        goto no_memory;
>>>>> +    if (VIR_STRDUP(driver->configDir, LXC_CONFIG_DIR) < 0)
>>>>> +        goto error;
>>>>> +    if (VIR_STRDUP(driver->stateDir, LXC_STATE_DIR) < 0)
>>>>> +        goto error;
>>>>> +    if (VIR_STRDUP(driver->logDir, LXC_LOG_DIR) < 0)
>>>>> +        goto error;
>>>>> +    if (VIR_STRDUP(driver->autostartDir, LXC_AUTOSTART_DIR) < 0)
>>>>> +        goto error;
>>>>
>>>> You could chain these into one 'if', if desired.
>>>
>>> I generally prefer it if we do not merge separate statements
>>> like these into one if, because it makes debugging harder.
>>> eg if any of these were to generate a SEGV, then GDB can
>>> only tell you the line of the start of the if(). Having
>>> them separate it can tell you exactly which is at fault.
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>
>> Not true unless you compile without -g. If you do copile with -g gdb is
>> actually able to tell you the full stack trace - so you can see the
>> right line within if() statement which caused the trouble.
> 
> Actually it depends on the quality of the debuginfo provided by the
> compiler. Historically it has not been able todo this correctly. I
> am not clear on what version of gcc fixed this, but I've certainly
> hit the problem many times in the past.
> 
> Daniel
> 

Aaah. Okay then - I've tested on the latest gcc-4.8.0 and gdb-7.6 which
could explain why I don't see the problem. So I will not join the if()'s
for now. Neither split those already joined. :) I'll just leave
everything as is.

Michal




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