[libvirt PATCH] qemu: remove unreachable code in qemuProcessStart()

[Laine Stump]

Back when the original version of this chunk of code was added (commit
41b087198 in libvirt-0.8.1 in April 2010), we used virExecDaemonize()
to start the qemu process, and would continue on in the function
(which at that time was called qemudStartVMDaemon()) even if a -1 was
returned. So it was possible to get to this code with rv == -1 (it was
called "ret" in that version of the code).

In modern libvirt code, qemu is started with virCommandRun(); then we
call virPidFileReadPath(); those are the only two ways of setting "rv"
prior to this code being removed, and in either case if the new value
of rv < 0, then we immediately skip over the rest of the code to the
cleanup: label.

This means that the code being removed by this patch is
unreachable.

(NB: anyway, attempting to fend off accidental removal of some other
guest's nwfilter rules by carefully ordering all nwfilter teardowns to
happen "before tap device deletion" is a fruitless pursuit, because a
tap device could be deleted by the qemu process being terminated
external to libvirt, i.e. we must instead avoid re-using tap device
names. That is coming.)

Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine at redhat.com>
---
 src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c
index 126fabf5ef..832b2e6870 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c
@@ -6907,12 +6907,6 @@ qemuProcessLaunch(virConnectPtr conn,
         goto cleanup;
     VIR_DEBUG("Handshake complete, child running");
 
-    if (rv == -1) {
-        /* The VM failed to start; tear filters before taps */
-        virDomainConfVMNWFilterTeardown(vm);
-        goto cleanup;
-    }
-
     if (qemuDomainObjStartWorker(vm) < 0)
         goto cleanup;
 
-- 
2.26.2