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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ben@decadent.org.uk
Cc: rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com, hannes@stressinduktion.org,
	edumazet@google.com, dhowells@redhat.com, ying.xue@windriver.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, joseph.salisbury@canonical.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] af_unix: Don't set err in unix_stream_read_generic unless there was an error
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:07:03 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160216.200703.2116723624769185830.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1455668691.1143.18.camel@decadent.org.uk>

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 00:24:51 +0000

> I agree that 'if (err) goto cleanup;' is widely used and is generally
> understandable (though more creative uses of goto are often not).
> 
> My objection was to 'err = -EFOO; if (cond) goto cleanup;'.  That is
> definitely not clear and it hides mistakes like this.

I don't see any difference whatsoever.

Part of the convention of the cleanup blob at the end of the
function is that error propagate to it's return statement via
a variable.

If this code wanted to handle that in more than one way, it is
the problem of this function, not of the convention itself.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-17  1:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-05 18:50 [V4.4-rc6 Regression] af_unix: Revert 'lock_interruptible' in stream receive code Joseph Salisbury
2016-02-05 19:59 ` Rainer Weikusat
2016-02-05 20:06   ` Joseph Salisbury
2016-02-05 21:18     ` Rainer Weikusat
2016-02-05 22:04       ` Rainer Weikusat
2016-02-05 21:44 ` Rainer Weikusat
2016-02-05 23:03   ` Eric Dumazet
2016-02-07 18:43     ` Rainer Weikusat
2016-02-07 20:39       ` Rainer Weikusat
2016-02-07 22:24       ` Rainer Weikusat
2016-02-08  3:35         ` Eric Dumazet
2016-02-05 22:30 ` [PATCH] af_unix: Don't set err in unix_stream_read_generic unless there was an error Rainer Weikusat
2016-02-07 19:20   ` Rainer Weikusat
2016-02-08 15:33     ` Rainer Weikusat
2016-02-08 18:05       ` Rainer Weikusat
2016-02-08 18:47         ` Rainer Weikusat
2016-02-16 17:51           ` David Miller
2016-02-17  0:24             ` Ben Hutchings
2016-02-17  1:07               ` David Miller [this message]
2016-02-08 18:33       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2016-02-11 21:31   ` Joseph Salisbury
2016-02-12 13:31     ` Rainer Weikusat
2016-02-13  0:18   ` Ben Hutchings

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