Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block/ssh: remove dead code

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 01:12:34PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> The "err" label cannot be reached with qp != NULL.  Remove the free-ing
> of qp and avoid future regressions by removing the initializer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
>  block/ssh.c | 5 +----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/ssh.c b/block/ssh.c
> index 8d06739..d35b51f 100644
> --- a/block/ssh.c
> +++ b/block/ssh.c
> @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ sftp_error_report(BDRVSSHState *s, const char *fs, ...)
>  static int parse_uri(const char *filename, QDict *options, Error **errp)
>  {
>      URI *uri = NULL;
> -    QueryParams *qp = NULL;
> +    QueryParams *qp;
>      int i;
>  
>      uri = uri_parse(filename);
> @@ -249,9 +249,6 @@ static int parse_uri(const char *filename, QDict *options, Error **errp)
>      return 0;
>  
>   err:
> -    if (qp) {
> -      query_params_free(qp);
> -    }
>      if (uri) {
>        uri_free(uri);
>      }

The patch looks correct to me, so:

ACK

However (in libguestfs) we would generally leave such code around to
make it more future proof against rearrangements of the code which
could cause a memory leak.  But then again, libguestfs (following
systemd practice) uses __attribute__((cleanup)) extensively ...

Rich.

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