[libvirt] [PATCH] (qemuTeardownDiskCgroup): avoid dead code

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Mon May 17 21:00:23 UTC 2010


On 05/17/2010 02:52 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> It's a good thing the latter while loop condition
> could never be true -- otherwise it'd be an infloop.
> 
>  static int qemuTeardownDiskCgroup(virCgroupPtr cgroup,
>                                    virDomainObjPtr vm,
>                                    virDomainDiskDefPtr disk)
>  {
>      char *path = disk->src;
>      int ret = -1;
> 
> -    while (path != NULL) {
> +    do {
>          virStorageFileMetadata meta;
>          int rc;
> 
>          VIR_DEBUG("Process path %s for disk", path);
...
>          path = meta.backingStore;
>      } while (path != NULL);

Are we sure disk->src is guaranteed to be non-NULL on entry, or would
have been better to rewrite this as while{}/*nothing*/ instead of do{}while?

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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