Re: [PATCH 2/5] efivarfs: efivarfs_create() ensure we drop our reference on inode on error

Khalid Aziz
2012-10-12T20:16:38Z

On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 20:21 +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> This is a common idiom used throughout the kernel to simply error paths.
> As you noted, calling kfree(NULL) is harmless and there's certainly no
> need to worry about the overhead of calling kfree() without doing any
> freeing since the error path is also the slow path.

A "return -ENOMEM" looks simpler and easier to read to me, but that is a
subjective opinion :)

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Khalid