Re: [PATCH] storage: Remove redundant refreshPool check

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On 06/23/2016 09:03 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 06/23/2016 03:32 AM, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 08:29:35PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>>> Every driver provides a refreshPool impl, and many other critical
>>> places in the code unconditionally call it without checking if
>>> it exists, so this check is pointless
>>
>> I'm not entirely sure about it, but it'd be nicer if we actually checked
>> that it's non-NULL.  Just to future-proof the code in case someone adds
>> another backend.
> 
> Please check the other storage_driver.c code... every 'startPool' invocation
> is followed by an uncondtional refreshPool call. If a driver is added without
> a refreshPool impl, it will crash libvirtd from any avenue that the pool can
> be started, so to support a driver like that will need much more work. This is
> the one place in the code that checks for backend->refreshPool


Hmm.. this check was caused by commit id '4a85bf3e2' where IIRC I was
probably being really paranoid.

Digging a bit more finds commit id '318ea3cb77' which seems to indicate
refreshPool *must* be supplied.

So ACK to the change,

John

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