[PATCH] cpu: Remove pointless check

Martin Kletzander mkletzan at redhat.com
Wed Apr 27 07:51:34 UTC 2022


These two pointers can never be NULL since they are initialised to a reference
of a struct.  This became apparent when commit 210a19539447 added a VIR_DEBUG
which used both pointers because due to the concise condition the compiler saw
that if the "and" part of the condition did short-circuit (and it assumed that
can happen) the second variable would not be initialised, but it is used in the
debugging message, so the build failed with:

  In file included from ../src/cpu/cpu_x86.c:27:
  ../src/cpu/cpu_x86.c: In function ‘virCPUx86DataIsIdentical’:
  ../src/util/virlog.h:79:5: error: ‘bdata’ may be used uninitialized in this
  function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]

Fix this by just assigning the helper pointers and remove the condition
altogether.

Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan at redhat.com>
---
Pushed under the build-breaker rule, but feel free to review/object.

 src/cpu/cpu_x86.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/cpu/cpu_x86.c b/src/cpu/cpu_x86.c
index 7e9d1cea47d1..a5eac7601cad 100644
--- a/src/cpu/cpu_x86.c
+++ b/src/cpu/cpu_x86.c
@@ -3314,10 +3314,8 @@ virCPUx86DataIsIdentical(const virCPUData *a,
         return VIR_CPU_COMPARE_INCOMPATIBLE;
     }
 
-    if (!((adata = &a->data.x86) && (bdata = &b->data.x86))) {
-        VIR_DEBUG("missing x86 data: a:%p b:%p", adata, bdata);
-        return VIR_CPU_COMPARE_ERROR;
-    }
+    adata = &a->data.x86;
+    bdata = &b->data.x86;
 
     if (adata->len != bdata->len) {
         VIR_DEBUG("unequal length a:%zu b:%zu", adata->len, bdata->len);
-- 
2.35.1



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