From 249a98a8ff9f9a3da30e977d347c14487088f738 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 20:09:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] util: optimize free_and_strdup() if NOP

Under the assumption that strcmp() is cheaper than memory allocation,
let's avoid the allocation, if the new value is identical to the old.
---
 src/shared/util.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/shared/util.c b/src/shared/util.c
index 275fdece1..b885a46e4 100644
--- a/src/shared/util.c
+++ b/src/shared/util.c
@@ -5683,6 +5683,9 @@ int free_and_strdup(char **p, const char *s) {
         /* Replaces a string pointer with an strdup()ed new string,
          * possibly freeing the old one. */
 
+        if (streq_ptr(*p, s))
+                return 0;
+
         if (s) {
                 t = strdup(s);
                 if (!t)
@@ -5693,7 +5696,7 @@ int free_and_strdup(char **p, const char *s) {
         free(*p);
         *p = t;
 
-        return 0;
+        return 1;
 }
 
 int sethostname_idempotent(const char *s) {
-- 
2.30.2