tests/qtest: simplify qtest_process_inbuf

Don't both creating a GString to temporarily hold our qtest command.
Instead do a simpler g_strndup and use autofree to clean up
afterwards.

Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20250207153112.3939799-5-alex.bennee@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/system/qtest.c b/system/qtest.c
index e68ed0f..bb1efba 100644
--- a/system/qtest.c
+++ b/system/qtest.c
@@ -763,25 +763,21 @@ static void qtest_process_command(CharBackend *chr, gchar **words)
     }
 }
 
+/*
+ * Process as much of @inbuf as we can in newline terminated chunks.
+ * Remove the processed commands from @inbuf as we go.
+ */
 static void qtest_process_inbuf(CharBackend *chr, GString *inbuf)
 {
     char *end;
 
     while ((end = strchr(inbuf->str, '\n')) != NULL) {
-        size_t offset;
-        GString *cmd;
-        gchar **words;
-
-        offset = end - inbuf->str;
+        size_t len = end - inbuf->str;
+        g_autofree char *cmd = g_strndup(inbuf->str, len);
+        g_auto(GStrv) words = g_strsplit(cmd, " ", 0);
 
-        cmd = g_string_new_len(inbuf->str, offset);
-        g_string_erase(inbuf, 0, offset + 1);
-
-        words = g_strsplit(cmd->str, " ", 0);
+        g_string_erase(inbuf, 0, len + 1);
         qtest_process_command(chr, words);
-        g_strfreev(words);
-
-        g_string_free(cmd, TRUE);
     }
 }