From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52863) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YVNz4-00006y-AL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:30:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YVNz1-0007JC-Ef for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:30:22 -0400 Received: from e28smtp05.in.ibm.com ([122.248.162.5]:55265) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YVNz0-0007EV-SG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:30:19 -0400 Received: from /spool/local by e28smtp05.in.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 10 Mar 2015 23:00:15 +0530 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" In-Reply-To: <1425503036-23707-1-git-send-email-mjt@msgid.tls.msk.ru> References: <1425503036-23707-1-git-send-email-mjt@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 23:00:09 +0530 Message-ID: <87k2yorc9q.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] 9pfs-local: simplify/optimize local_mapped_attr_path() List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Michael Tokarev Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Michael Tokarev writes: > Omit one unnecessary memory allocation for components of the path > and create the resulting path directly given lengths of the components. > > This uses (char*) cast because basename() accepts a char* without const, > for unknown reason. Maybe it is better to use strrchr(), but I'm not > sure for various forms of directory component delimiter. basename(3) says: Both dirname() and basename() may modify the contents of path, so it may be desirable to pass a copy when calling one of these functions > > And according to basename(3) manpage, it might return different strings > for various corner cases, for example for empty argument it returns a > string "." which is obviously at some other address, so both the old > code and new code will do a bad thing here. So maybe it is actually > better to use strrchr() after all. > > Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev > --- > hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-local.c | 17 ++++------------- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-local.c b/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-local.c > index d05c917..fddc242 100644 > --- a/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-local.c > +++ b/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-local.c > @@ -45,19 +45,10 @@ > > static char *local_mapped_attr_path(FsContext *ctx, const char *path) > { > - char *dir_name; > - char *tmp_path = g_strdup(path); > - char *base_name = basename(tmp_path); > - char *buffer; > - > - /* NULL terminate the directory */ > - dir_name = tmp_path; > - *(base_name - 1) = '\0'; > - > - buffer = g_strdup_printf("%s/%s/%s/%s", > - ctx->fs_root, dir_name, VIRTFS_META_DIR, base_name); > - g_free(tmp_path); > - return buffer; > + const char *name = basename((char*)path); as per the man page basename could end up modifying 'path' and we don't want to modify the input argument of the function. > + int dirlen = name - path - 1; > + return g_strdup_printf("%s/%.*s/%s/%s", ctx->fs_root, > + dirlen, path, VIRTFS_META_DIR, name); > } > > static FILE *local_fopen(const char *path, const char *mode) I am not sure whether we really need all these cleanups without really fixing anyi specific issue. -aneesh