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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Ian Cowan <ian@linux.cowan.aero>
Cc: mripard@kernel.org, paul.kocialkowski@bootlin.com,
	mchehab@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, wens@csie.org,
	jernej.skrabec@gmail.com, samuel@sholland.org,
	linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: sunxi: cedrus: centralize cedrus_open exit
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 12:20:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220425092048.GL2462@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220423180111.91602-1-ian@linux.cowan.aero>

On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 02:01:11PM -0400, Ian Cowan wrote:
> Refactor the cedrus_open() function so that there is only one exit to
> the function instead of 2. This prevents a future change from preventing
> the mutex from being unlocked after a successful exit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ian Cowan <ian@linux.cowan.aero>

No.  You are just making the code ugly and complicated for no reason.

I work in static analysis so I have focussed a lot of attention on
locking bugs.  In real life this theory is totally bogus.  Single exit
paths only cause bugs, they don't prevent bugs.

regards,
dan carpenter


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  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-25  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-23 18:01 [PATCH] staging: sunxi: cedrus: centralize cedrus_open exit Ian Cowan
2022-04-25  9:20 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2022-04-25  9:29   ` Paul Kocialkowski
2022-04-25 10:00     ` Dan Carpenter
2022-04-26  7:39       ` Paul Kocialkowski
2022-04-28 10:26         ` Dan Carpenter
2022-04-28 11:56           ` Paul Kocialkowski
2022-04-25  9:36 ` Dan Carpenter
2022-04-25 15:52 ` Jernej Škrabec

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