The g_strsplit() function can return NULL if and only if either the input string is NULL or delimiter is NULL or an empty string. In neither of places we call it any of the conditions is true and thus we don't need to check for the return value. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/libxl/xen_xl.c | 2 -- src/util/vircgroupv2.c | 2 -- src/util/virprocess.c | 2 -- src/util/virresctrl.c | 2 -- 4 files changed, 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/libxl/xen_xl.c b/src/libxl/xen_xl.c index 7604e3d534..869083a1d1 100644 --- a/src/libxl/xen_xl.c +++ b/src/libxl/xen_xl.c @@ -265,8 +265,6 @@ xenParseXLCPUID(virConf *conf, virDomainDef *def) } cpuid_pairs = g_strsplit(cpuid_str, ",", 0); - if (!cpuid_pairs) - return -1; if (!cpuid_pairs[0]) return 0; diff --git a/src/util/vircgroupv2.c b/src/util/vircgroupv2.c index 4c110940cf..f00a8f154b 100644 --- a/src/util/vircgroupv2.c +++ b/src/util/vircgroupv2.c @@ -286,8 +286,6 @@ virCgroupV2ParseControllersFile(virCgroup *group, virTrimSpaces(contStr, NULL); contList = g_strsplit(contStr, " ", 20); - if (!contList) - return -1; tmp = contList; diff --git a/src/util/virprocess.c b/src/util/virprocess.c index b559a4257e..06767dbf51 100644 --- a/src/util/virprocess.c +++ b/src/util/virprocess.c @@ -1837,8 +1837,6 @@ virProcessGetSchedInfo(unsigned long long *cpuWait, return -1; lines = g_strsplit(data, "\n", 0); - if (!lines) - return -1; for (i = 0; lines[i] != NULL; i++) { const char *line = lines[i]; diff --git a/src/util/virresctrl.c b/src/util/virresctrl.c index edbf078654..fe45ad3c64 100644 --- a/src/util/virresctrl.c +++ b/src/util/virresctrl.c @@ -1646,8 +1646,6 @@ virResctrlAllocParseCacheLine(virResctrlInfo *resctrl, } caches = g_strsplit(tmp, ";", 0); - if (!caches) - return 0; for (next = caches; *next; next++) { if (virResctrlAllocParseProcessCache(resctrl, alloc, level, type, *next) < 0) -- 2.34.1