Re: [PATCH 2/5] fs/anon_inodes.c: Simplify control flow in anon_inode_getfd()

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 10:07:13PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 03:42:39PM -0500, Eric Biggers wrote:
> >  	file = anon_inode_getfile(name, fops, priv, flags);
> >  	if (IS_ERR(file)) {
> > -		error = PTR_ERR(file);
> > -		goto err_put_unused_fd;
> > +		put_unused_fd(fd);
> > +		return PTR_ERR(file);
> >  	}
> >  	fd_install(fd, file);
> 
> at least slap unlikely() on that if (IS_ERR(...))...

That shouldn't be necessary, as far as I can tell; linux/err.h has:

#define IS_ERR_VALUE(x) unlikely((x) >= (unsigned long)-MAX_ERRNO)
...
static inline bool __must_check IS_ERR(__force const void *ptr)
{
	return IS_ERR_VALUE((unsigned long)ptr);
}

So unless GCC fails to propagate expected-value handling through static
inline functions, you should never need to write unlikely(IS_ERR(...)).

- Josh Triplett