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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>,
	Dawson Engler <engler@csl.Stanford.EDU>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	mc@cs.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Re: [CHECKER] 56 potential lock/unlock bugs in 2.5.8
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:44:35 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020712014435.GL9541@conectiva.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D2E211E.24CF19B0@zip.com.au>

Em Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 05:21:50PM -0700, Andrew Morton escreveu:
> Thunder from the hill wrote:
> > Here is the whole set.
 
> It's fair enough for a fix I guess.  But careful readers will
> have observed that a goodly portion of these bugs are directly
> due to the poor programming practice of putting more than one
> return statement in a C function.

woohooo!

"gotos considered !harmful"

8)

<asbestos suit>
- Arnaldo (that will continue putting more gotos in the kernel (hopefully)
           where they make sense, _clarifying_ the code and making it
           more maintainable 8) )
</asbestos suit>

  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-12  1:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-11 21:35 [CHECKER] 56 potential lock/unlock bugs in 2.5.8 Dawson Engler
2002-07-11 21:54 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-11 22:21 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-07-11 23:14 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-11 23:32   ` Andreas Dilger
2002-07-11 23:45     ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-11 23:41   ` Chris Wright
2002-07-12  0:21   ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-12  1:44     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2002-07-12 17:40   ` Roman Zippel
2002-07-12 17:53     ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-12 18:37       ` Roman Zippel
2002-07-12 18:05     ` Dave Jones
2002-07-12 18:32       ` Roman Zippel
2002-07-12 18:37         ` Dave Jones
2002-07-12 20:34           ` Roman Zippel
2002-07-12 20:48             ` Dave Jones
2002-07-12 21:30               ` Roman Zippel
2002-07-12 21:38                 ` Dave Jones
2002-07-12 21:56                   ` Roman Zippel
2002-07-12 22:14                     ` Dave Jones
2002-07-12 22:34                       ` Roman Zippel
2002-07-12 22:41                         ` Dave Jones
2002-07-12 13:17 ` David Woodhouse
2002-07-12 13:26   ` Thunder from the hill
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-11 22:32 Grover, Andrew
2002-07-11 23:26 ` Dawson Engler
     [not found] <200207112135.OAA03801@csl.Stanford.EDU.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-07-11 22:34 ` Andi Kleen

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