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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Jean Sacren <sakiwit@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv4/netfilter: remove unnecessary goto statement for error recovery
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:33:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120822223312.GB11141@1984> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1345425092-11905-1-git-send-email-sakiwit@gmail.com>

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 07:11:32PM -0600, Jean Sacren wrote:
> Usually it's a good practice to use goto statement for error recovery
> when initializing the module. This approach could be an overkill if:
> 
>  1) there is only one fail case;
>  2) success and failure use the same return statement.
> 
> For a cleaner approach, remove the unnecessary goto statement and
> directly implement error recovery.

Applied, thanks Jean.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-22 22:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-20  1:11 [PATCH net-next] ipv4/netfilter: remove unnecessary goto statement for error recovery Jean Sacren
2012-08-22 22:33 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
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2012-08-20  2:43 Patrick McHardy

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