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From: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
To: Saurav Girepunje <saurav.girepunje@gmail.com>,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, fabioaiuto83@gmail.com,
	ross.schm.dev@gmail.com, marcocesati@gmail.com,
	insafonov@gmail.com, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: saurav.girepunje@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: rtl8723bs: os_dep: simplify the return statement.
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 11:56:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb878891-f7e0-6a3d-6f81-b1deb4eecdcf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YWJ0vSrgsiKK7suE@user>

On 10/10/21 08:06, Saurav Girepunje wrote:
> Remove the unneeded and redundant check of variable on goto out.
> Simplify the return using multiple goto label to avoid
> unneeded check.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Saurav Girepunje <saurav.girepunje@gmail.com>

[code snip]

>   	ret = cfg80211_register_netdevice(mon_ndev);
>   	if (ret) {
> -		goto out;
> +		goto err_register;
>   	}
> 
>   	*ndev = pwdev_priv->pmon_ndev = mon_ndev;
>   	memcpy(pwdev_priv->ifname_mon, name, IFNAMSIZ+1);
> +	goto out;
> 


This looks confusing for readers. This is success path and ret is 
guaranteed to be 0 at this point, so isn't `return 0;` enough here?

Thanks


> +out:
>   	return ret;
>   }
> 



With regards,
Pavel Skripkin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-10  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-10  5:06 Saurav Girepunje
2021-10-10  7:24 ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-10-11 18:10   ` Saurav Girepunje
2021-10-10  8:56 ` Pavel Skripkin [this message]
2021-10-10 12:59 ` Greg KH
2021-10-11  8:54 ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-10-11 12:33   ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2021-10-11 18:36     ` Saurav Girepunje
2021-10-11 17:32   ` Saurav Girepunje
2021-10-11 12:30 ` Dan Carpenter
2021-10-11 18:28   ` Saurav Girepunje

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