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.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/shared/util.c b/src/shared/util.c
index c5c1b0ccbf..de891447e7 100644
--- a/src/shared/util.c
+++ b/src/shared/util.c
@@ -5682,6 +5682,9 @@ 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)
@@ -5692,7 +5695,7 @@ int free_and_strdup(char **p, const char *s) {
         free(*p);
         *p = t;
 
-        return 0;
+        return 1;
 }
 
 int sethostname_idempotent(const char *s) {