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From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
To: "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
	Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	outreachy@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: Remove goto to no-op exit label
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2022 13:41:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YkdjhGtMwnbJcz+P@iweiny-desk3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220401183513.26222-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>

On Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 08:35:13PM +0200, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> In function rtw_free_netdev() there are two "goto" jumps to a no-op exit
> label called "RETURN". Remove the label and return in line.

Thanks for the patch!  However, A good commit message lists the why and what of
a change.  I don't see a why for this commit?

FWIW (For what it's worth) I know of a couple of good reasons for this change
but you should get in the habit of putting that in the commit message.  Even
for obvious things like this.

Anyway, I think this patch can stand on it's own with an updated commit
message.  However, see below...

> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/osdep_service.c | 7 ++-----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/osdep_service.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/osdep_service.c
> index 7a6fcc96081a..d680bfba7f5d 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/osdep_service.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/osdep_service.c
> @@ -117,18 +117,15 @@ void rtw_free_netdev(struct net_device *netdev)
>  	struct rtw_netdev_priv_indicator *pnpi;
>  
>  	if (!netdev)
> -		goto RETURN;
> +		return;
>  
>  	pnpi = netdev_priv(netdev);
>  
>  	if (!pnpi->priv)
> -		goto RETURN;
> +		return;

This does not look right.  If netdev is not NULL why does this function skip
free_netdev()?

Fabio could you follow up with Larry and/or Phillip and see why the code does
this?  To me it looks like a potential bug.

Thanks!
Ira

>  
>  	vfree(pnpi->priv);
>  	free_netdev(netdev);
> -
> -RETURN:
> -	return;
>  }
>  
>  int rtw_change_ifname(struct adapter *padapter, const char *ifname)
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-01 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-01 18:35 [PATCH] staging: r8188eu: Remove goto to no-op exit label Fabio M. De Francesco
2022-04-01 20:41 ` Ira Weiny [this message]
2022-04-02 10:13   ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2022-04-02 11:45     ` Martin Kaiser
2022-04-02 13:22       ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2022-04-04  9:59   ` Dan Carpenter

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