On 07/11/2013 09:56 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:34:06AM -0400, John Ferlan wrote: >> The switch statement in 'virStorageBackendCreateQemuImgOpts' used the >> for loop end condition 'VIR_STORAGE_FILE_FEATURE_LAST' as a possible value, >> but since that cannot happen Coverity spits out a DEADCODE message. Adding >> the Coverity tag just removes the Coverity message >> --- >> src/storage/storage_backend.c | 1 + >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) >> >> diff --git a/src/storage/storage_backend.c b/src/storage/storage_backend.c >> index 5d06eb6..8d5880e 100644 >> --- a/src/storage/storage_backend.c >> +++ b/src/storage/storage_backend.c >> @@ -663,6 +663,7 @@ virStorageBackendCreateQemuImgOpts(char **opts, >> } >> break; >> >> + /* coverity[dead_error_begin] */ >> case VIR_STORAGE_FILE_FEATURE_LAST: >> ; >> } > > Wow, I tend to think that this code is terribly over engineered. We > really don't need to have a for loop with a nested case. The entire > thing can be replaced with something much simpler. > > > Daniel > It's not the only code that does something similar, but I was following how it was handled in other code. See: src/lxc/lxc_driver.c (search on dead_error_begin or LXC_NB_BLKIO_PARAM) Should that code change as well? For this code I wasn't sure if the future held more VIR_STORAGE_FILE_FEATURE options... John -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list