Re: [PATCH] softmmu/device_tree: Remove redundant pointer assignment

[Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 1:28 PM Yanan Wang via <qemu-devel@nongnu.org> wrote:
>
> The pointer assignment "const char *p = path;" in function
> qemu_fdt_add_path is unnecessary. Let's remove it and just
> use the "path" passed in. No functional change.
>
> Suggested-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>

Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>

Alistair

> ---
> Based on: softmmu/device_tree: Silence compiler warning with --enable-sanitizers
> https://patchew.org/QEMU/20220107133844.145039-1-thuth@redhat.com/
> ---
>  softmmu/device_tree.c | 9 ++++-----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/softmmu/device_tree.c b/softmmu/device_tree.c
> index 9e96f5ecd5..8897c79ea4 100644
> --- a/softmmu/device_tree.c
> +++ b/softmmu/device_tree.c
> @@ -556,7 +556,6 @@ int qemu_fdt_add_subnode(void *fdt, const char *name)
>  int qemu_fdt_add_path(void *fdt, const char *path)
>  {
>      const char *name;
> -    const char *p = path;
>      int namelen, retval;
>      int parent = 0;
>
> @@ -565,9 +564,9 @@ int qemu_fdt_add_path(void *fdt, const char *path)
>      }
>
>      do {
> -        name = p + 1;
> -        p = strchr(name, '/');
> -        namelen = p != NULL ? p - name : strlen(name);
> +        name = path + 1;
> +        path = strchr(name, '/');
> +        namelen = path != NULL ? path - name : strlen(name);
>
>          retval = fdt_subnode_offset_namelen(fdt, parent, name, namelen);
>          if (retval < 0 && retval != -FDT_ERR_NOTFOUND) {
> @@ -584,7 +583,7 @@ int qemu_fdt_add_path(void *fdt, const char *path)
>          }
>
>          parent = retval;
> -    } while (p);
> +    } while (path);
>
>      return retval;
>  }
> --
> 2.27.0
>
>