From bb3d5c1c7a1c9be6f4660a035775e3a28dbdd520 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Remi Gacogne <remi.gacogne@powerdns.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:39:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] dnsdist: Fix a performance inefficiency reported by Coverity

As CID 490492 (`AUTO_CAUSES_COPY`).

Signed-off-by: Remi Gacogne <remi.gacogne@powerdns.com>
---
 pdns/dnsdistdist/dnsdist-lua.cc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pdns/dnsdistdist/dnsdist-lua.cc b/pdns/dnsdistdist/dnsdist-lua.cc
index 24af5ce78b..1099ac3f16 100644
--- a/pdns/dnsdistdist/dnsdist-lua.cc
+++ b/pdns/dnsdistdist/dnsdist-lua.cc
@@ -2074,7 +2074,7 @@ static void setupLuaConfig(LuaContext& luaCtx, bool client, bool configCheck)
 
   luaCtx.writeFunction("showPoolServerPolicy", [](const std::string& pool) {
     setLuaSideEffect();
-    auto poolObj = getPool(pool);
+    const auto& poolObj = getPool(pool);
     if (poolObj.policy == nullptr) {
       g_outputBuffer = dnsdist::configuration::getCurrentRuntimeConfiguration().d_lbPolicy->getName() + "\n";
     }
-- 
2.47.3