From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "David Laight" <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Mathieu Desnoyers" <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
"Darren Hart" <dvhart@infradead.org>,
"Davidlohr Bueso" <dave@stgolabs.net>,
"André Almeida" <andrealmeid@igalia.com>,
x86@kernel.org, "Christian Brauner" <brauner@kernel.org>,
"Jan Kara" <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] uaccess: Provide and use helpers for user masked access
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:21:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250818222111.GE222315@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wibAE=yDhWdY7jQ7xvCtbmW5Tjtt_zMJcEzey3xfL=ViA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 02:36:31PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And "goto" is fine, as long as you have legible syntax and don't use
> it to generate spaghetti code. Being able to write bad code with goto
> doesn't make 'goto' bad - you can write bad code with *anything*.
Put it another way, one can massage a code into a strictly structured
(no goto, only one exit from each block, etc.) equivalent and every
hard-to-answer question about the original will map to the replacement -
just as hard as it had been.
I suspect that folks with "goto is a Bad Word(tm)" hardon had been told
that goto was always avoidable, but had never bothered to read the proof...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-18 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-13 15:57 [patch 0/4] uaccess: Provide and use helpers for user masked access Thomas Gleixner
2025-08-13 15:57 ` [patch 1/4] uaccess: Provide common helpers for masked user access Thomas Gleixner
2025-08-26 7:04 ` Christophe Leroy
2025-09-13 18:01 ` Thomas Gleixner
2025-08-13 15:57 ` [patch 2/4] futex: Convert to get/put_user_masked_u32() Thomas Gleixner
2025-08-13 15:57 ` [patch 3/4] x86/futex: Use user_*_masked_begin() Thomas Gleixner
2025-08-26 7:09 ` Christophe Leroy
2025-08-13 15:57 ` [patch 4/4] select: Use user_read_masked_begin() Thomas Gleixner
2025-08-17 13:49 ` [patch 0/4] uaccess: Provide and use helpers for user masked access David Laight
2025-08-17 14:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-17 15:29 ` David Laight
2025-08-17 15:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-18 11:59 ` David Laight
2025-08-18 21:21 ` David Laight
2025-08-18 21:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-18 22:21 ` Al Viro [this message]
2025-08-18 23:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2025-08-19 0:39 ` Al Viro
2025-08-20 23:48 ` Al Viro
2025-08-21 7:45 ` Christian Brauner
2025-08-21 22:49 ` Al Viro
2025-08-19 2:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-08-19 21:33 ` David Laight
2025-08-19 4:44 ` Thomas Weißschuh
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