Re: [PATCH 4/5] powerpc-pseries: Return directly after a failed kzalloc_node() in iommu_pseries_alloc_group()

["Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:04:43 +0200
SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> >> @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ static struct iommu_table_group
> >> *iommu_pseries_alloc_group(int node) table_group =
> >> kzalloc_node(sizeof(*table_group), GFP_KERNEL, node); if
> >> (!table_group)
> >> -		goto fail_exit;
> >> +		return NULL;
> >>  
> >>  	tbl = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*tbl), GFP_KERNEL, node);
> >>  	if (!tbl)  
> > 
> > I have seen quite a few fixes that do inverse of this patch after a
> > piece of code allocating some extra piece of memory was added before
> > code that just returns on fail because it is the first allocation in
> > the function.
> > 
> > This is not useful.  
> 
> How do you think about an information from the section “7)
> Centralized exiting of functions” in the document “coding-style.rst”
> then?
> 
> “…
> If there is no cleanup needed then just return directly.
> …”

There is also stated benefit

"
- errors by not updating individual exit points when making
  modifications are prevented
"

which is furthered by using the common cleanup even in case no cleanup
is required but running the cleanup does not cause any harm.

Thanks

Michal