There's no reason to defer the calling of parse_msg_type() until after we've checked if the "id < 0". This is not a hot codepath, and parse_msg_type() itself may die on invalid input. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- fsck.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fsck.c b/fsck.c index c5a81e4ff05..80365e62842 100644 --- a/fsck.c +++ b/fsck.c @@ -201,11 +201,10 @@ void fsck_set_msg_type(struct fsck_options *options, const char *msg_id_str, const char *msg_type_str) { int msg_id = parse_msg_id(msg_id_str); - enum fsck_msg_type msg_type; + enum fsck_msg_type msg_type = parse_msg_type(msg_type_str); if (msg_id < 0) die("Unhandled message id: %s", msg_id_str); - msg_type = parse_msg_type(msg_type_str); if (msg_type != FSCK_ERROR && msg_id_info[msg_id].msg_type == FSCK_FATAL) die("Cannot demote %s to %s", msg_id_str, msg_type_str); -- 2.31.1.445.g087790d4945