Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-nbd: drop loop which can never loop

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 01/05/2012 02:16 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> For some reason nbd_client_thread() has a do..while loop which can never
> loop, the condition is bogus because we would take a goto instead.  Drop
> the loop.
>
> Reported-by: Dr David Alan Gilbert<davidagilbert@uk.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi<stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>   qemu-nbd.c |   10 ++++------
>   1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/qemu-nbd.c b/qemu-nbd.c
> index 155b058..eb61c33 100644
> --- a/qemu-nbd.c
> +++ b/qemu-nbd.c
> @@ -202,12 +202,10 @@ static void *nbd_client_thread(void *arg)
>       int ret;
>       pthread_t show_parts_thread;
>
> -    do {
> -        sock = unix_socket_outgoing(sockpath);
> -        if (sock == -1) {
> -            goto out;
> -        }
> -    } while (sock == -1);
> +    sock = unix_socket_outgoing(sockpath);
> +    if (sock == -1) {
> +        goto out;
> +    }
>
>       ret = nbd_receive_negotiate(sock, NULL,&nbdflags,
>                                   &size,&blocksize);

Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

It used to loop until commit f1ef555.  When I simplified the loop I 
failed to actually remove it.

I suppose it will get in through your trivial patches tree, won't it?

Paolo