Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] 9pfs: local: simplify file opening

[Greg Kurz]

On Fri, 5 May 2017 12:01:55 -0500
Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 05/05/2017 09:37 AM, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > All paths in the virtfs directory now start with "./" (except the virtfs
> > root itself which is exactly ".").
> > 
> > We hence don't need to skip leading '/' characters anymore, nor to handle
> > the empty path case. Also, since virtfs will only ever be supported on
> > linux+glibc hosts, we can use strchrnul() and come up with a much simplier
> > code to walk through the path elements. And we don't need to dup() the
> > passed directory fd.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  hw/9pfs/9p-local.c |    5 -----
> >  hw/9pfs/9p-util.c  |   26 ++++++++++----------------
> >  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c b/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c
> > index 92262f3c3e37..bb6e296df317 100644
> > --- a/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c
> > +++ b/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c
> > @@ -54,11 +54,6 @@ int local_open_nofollow(FsContext *fs_ctx, const char 
> > *path, int flags,
> >  {
> >      LocalData *data = fs_ctx->private;
> >  
> > -    /* All paths are relative to the path data->mountfd points to */
> > -    while (*path == '/') {
> > -        path++;
> > -    }  
> 
> Is it worth adding any assert()s in place of the deleted code?
> 

The assert() added by this patch ensures that we never pass an empty
string to relative_openat_nofollow(), which isn't related to this
hunk of deleted code... so I'm not sure I understand the question :-\

> Otherwise looks okay.
>

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