Re: [PATCH] block: Use a GString in bdrv_perm_names()

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>]

On 1/10/20 6:15 PM, Alberto Garcia wrote:
> This is a bit more efficient than having to allocate and free memory
> for each new permission.
> 
> The default size (30) is enough for "consistent read, write, resize".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
> ---
>   block.c | 11 ++++++-----
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
> index 1b6f7c86e8..2bc9e58392 100644
> --- a/block.c
> +++ b/block.c
> @@ -1976,18 +1976,19 @@ char *bdrv_perm_names(uint64_t perm)
>           { 0, NULL }
>       };
>   
> -    char *result = g_strdup("");
> +    GString *result = g_string_sized_new(30);
>       struct perm_name *p;
>   
>       for (p = permissions; p->name; p++) {
>           if (perm & p->perm) {
> -            char *old = result;
> -            result = g_strdup_printf("%s%s%s", old, *old ? ", " : "", p->name);
> -            g_free(old);
> +            if (result->len > 0) {
> +                g_string_append(result, ", ");
> +            }
> +            g_string_append(result, p->name);
>           }
>       }
>   
> -    return result;
> +    return g_string_free(result, FALSE);
>   }

Maybe similar cleanup can be done to report_unsupported_feature() in 
block/qcow2.c.