Noticed while checking Coccinelle results. Naming a label 'out:' when it is only used on error paths is weird. Also, we had some dead stores to 'ret'. Meanwhile we know that snapshot_options is NULL on success and that QDECREF(NULL) is safe. So merge the two exit paths into one by careful control over bs_snapshot.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> --- v5: add R-b v4: fix -O2 compilation bug, kill dead 'ret' v3: split out from bigger v2 patch --- block.c | 19 ++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/block.c b/block.c index 5b70f58..1ee9db2 100644 --- a/block.c +++ b/block.c @@ -2195,7 +2195,7 @@ static BlockDriverState *bdrv_append_temp_snapshot(BlockDriverState *bs, char *tmp_filename = g_malloc0(PATH_MAX + 1); int64_t total_size; QemuOpts *opts = NULL; - BlockDriverState *bs_snapshot; + BlockDriverState *bs_snapshot = NULL; Error *local_err = NULL; int ret; @@ -2235,28 +2235,25 @@ static BlockDriverState *bdrv_append_temp_snapshot(BlockDriverState *bs, bs_snapshot = bdrv_open(NULL, NULL, snapshot_options, flags, errp); snapshot_options = NULL; if (!bs_snapshot) { - ret = -EINVAL; goto out; } - /* bdrv_append() consumes a strong reference to bs_snapshot (i.e. it will - * call bdrv_unref() on it), so in order to be able to return one, we have - * to increase bs_snapshot's refcount here */ + /* bdrv_append() consumes a strong reference to bs_snapshot + * (i.e. it will call bdrv_unref() on it) even on error, so in + * order to be able to return one, we have to increase + * bs_snapshot's refcount here */ bdrv_ref(bs_snapshot); bdrv_append(bs_snapshot, bs, &local_err); if (local_err) { error_propagate(errp, local_err); - ret = -EINVAL; + bs_snapshot = NULL; goto out; } +out: + QDECREF(snapshot_options); g_free(tmp_filename); return bs_snapshot; - -out: - QDECREF(snapshot_options); - g_free(tmp_filename); - return NULL; } /* -- 2.9.3