[PATCH 1/2] conf: Avoid false positive of uninitialized variable use

[Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

GCC 4.8.0+ whines about variable "new" being uninitialized since
commit 73bfac0e7182a3abd. This is a false positive as the
xmlFreeNode(new) statement can be only reached if new was actually
allocated successfully.

  CC       conf/libvirt_conf_la-domain_conf.lo
  conf/domain_conf.c: In function 'virDomainDefSetMetadata':
  conf/domain_conf.c:18650:24: error: 'new' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]
               xmlFreeNode(new);

Reported independently by John Ferlan and Michal Privoznik.
---
 src/conf/domain_conf.c | 9 +++------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
index 60f25ab..e5fe900 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
@@ -18598,7 +18598,7 @@ virDomainDefSetMetadata(virDomainDefPtr def,
 {
     xmlDocPtr doc = NULL;
     xmlNodePtr old;
-    xmlNodePtr new;
+    xmlNodePtr new = NULL;
     char *tmp;
     int ret = -1;

@@ -18647,11 +18647,8 @@ virDomainDefSetMetadata(virDomainDefPtr def,
             xmlFreeNode(old);
         }

-        /* just delete the metadata */
-        if (!metadata)
-            break;
-
-        if (!(xmlAddChild(def->metadata, new))) {
+        if (new &&
+            !(xmlAddChild(def->metadata, new))) {
             xmlFreeNode(new);
             virReportOOMError();
             goto cleanup;
-- 
1.8.3.2

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