Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on unnecessary void function return statements

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Mon, 2014-06-16 at 17:44 -0700, Anish Bhatt wrote:
> My code has multiple exit lables:
> void function(void)
> {
> 	...
> 
> 	if (err1)
> 		goto exit1;
> 	...
> 	if (err2)
> 		goto exit2;
> 
> 	...
> 	return; /* Good return, no errors */
> exit1:
> 	printk(err1);
> 	return;
> exit2:
> 	printk(err2);
> }
> 
> The single tabbed return was required to prevent the good return & err1 
> messages cascading down. The extra exit label with a noop looks weird, 
> but is passing checkpatch.pl --strict, so I will go with that, thanks.
> -Anish
> 

Hmm, those return uses seem reasonable
to me.

Perhaps the test should warn only on
this specific 3 line sequence:

[any line but a label]
	return;
}

Andrew?  Anyone else?  Opinions?