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qcow2: Only return status from qcow2_get_refcount
Refcounts can theoretically be of type uint64_t; in order to be able to represent the full range, qcow2_get_refcount() cannot use a single variable to represent both all refcount values and also keep some values reserved for errors. One solution would be to add an Error pointer parameter to qcow2_get_refcount(); however, no caller could (currently) pass that error message, so it would have to be emitted immediately and be passed to the next caller by returning -EIO or something similar. Therefore, an Error parameter does not offer any advantages here. The solution applied by this patch is simpler to use. Because no caller would be able to pass the error message, they would have to print it and free it, whereas with this patch the caller only needs to pass the returned integer (which is often a no-op from the code perspective, because that integer will be stored in a variable "ret" which will be returned by the fail path of many callers). Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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