I have seen this pattern a lot in the project, so I decided to rewrite code I stumbled upon to the same pattern as well. Signed-off-by: Kristina Hanicova <khanicov(a)redhat.com&gt; --- This is v2 of: https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2021-November/msg00747.html Diff to v1: * adding variable 'rc' to fix buggy code and keep the code equivalent (suggested by Jano) src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 22 +++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c index 1959b639da..5c4b493f64 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c @@ -15975,6 +15975,7 @@ qemuDomainSetBlockIoTune(virDomainPtr dom, g_autofree char *drivealias = NULL; const char *qdevid = NULL; int ret = -1; + int rc = 0; size_t i; virDomainDiskDef *conf_disk = NULL; virDomainDiskDef *disk; @@ -16229,13 +16230,10 @@ qemuDomainSetBlockIoTune(virDomainPtr dom, !virStorageSourceIsEmpty(disk->src)) { qemuDomainObjEnterMonitor(driver, vm); - ret = qemuMonitorSetBlockIoThrottle(priv->mon, drivealias, qdevid, - &info); - if (qemuDomainObjExitMonitor(driver, vm) < 0) - ret = -1; - if (ret < 0) + rc = qemuMonitorSetBlockIoThrottle(priv->mon, drivealias, qdevid, &info); + + if (qemuDomainObjExitMonitor(driver, vm) < 0 || rc < 0) goto endjob; - ret = -1; } virDomainDiskSetBlockIOTune(disk, &info); @@ -16310,6 +16308,7 @@ qemuDomainGetBlockIoTune(virDomainPtr dom, g_autofree char *drivealias = NULL; const char *qdevid = NULL; int ret = -1; + int rc = 0; int maxparams; virCheckFlags(VIR_DOMAIN_AFFECT_LIVE | @@ -16361,10 +16360,9 @@ qemuDomainGetBlockIoTune(virDomainPtr dom, goto endjob; } qemuDomainObjEnterMonitor(driver, vm); - ret = qemuMonitorGetBlockIoThrottle(priv->mon, drivealias, qdevid, &reply); - if (qemuDomainObjExitMonitor(driver, vm) < 0) - goto endjob; - if (ret < 0) + rc = qemuMonitorGetBlockIoThrottle(priv->mon, drivealias, qdevid, &reply); + + if (qemuDomainObjExitMonitor(driver, vm) < 0 || rc < 0) goto endjob; } @@ -17375,10 +17373,8 @@ qemuDomainSetTime(virDomainPtr dom, if (virQEMUCapsGet(priv->qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_RTC_RESET_REINJECTION)) { qemuDomainObjEnterMonitor(driver, vm); rv = qemuMonitorRTCResetReinjection(priv->mon); - if (qemuDomainObjExitMonitor(driver, vm) < 0) - goto endjob; - if (rv < 0) + if (qemuDomainObjExitMonitor(driver, vm) < 0 || rv < 0) goto endjob; } -- 2.31.1