From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] net-PPP: Deletion of a few unnecessary checks
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 17:44:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54931283.1030804@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141218.122556.2148647081075440879.davem@davemloft.net>
>> Now I find still that your data reorgansisation wish can not be resolved
>> in a simple way.
>
> I'm saying to leave the code alone.
It seems that there might be a misunderstanding between us.
> If it goes:
>
> var = foo_that_returns_ptr_err()
> if (IS_ERR(var))
> return PTR_ERR(var);
>
> p->bar = var;
>
> or whatever, simply keep it that way!
A simple return was not used by the mppe_alloc() function so far because
a bit of memory clean-up will also be useful after error detection,
won't it?
> I'm not engaging in this conversation any further, you have already
> consumed way too much of my limited time on this incredibly trivial matter.
It can occasionally happen that a safe clarification of specific implementation
details will need more efforts than you would like to invest at the moment.
Regards,
Markus
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2014-11-30 16:40 ` [PATCH 0/3] net-PPP: Deletion of a few unnecessary checks SF Markus Elfring
2014-11-30 16:44 ` [PATCH 1/3] net-PPP: Deletion of unnecessary checks before the function call "kfree" SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-01 12:19 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2014-12-01 15:00 ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-01 17:11 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2014-12-04 22:03 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] net-PPP: Deletion of a few unnecessary checks SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-04 22:10 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] net-PPP: Replacement of a printk() call by pr_warn() in mppe_rekey() SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-04 22:23 ` Joe Perches
2014-12-04 22:27 ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-04 22:45 ` Joe Perches
2014-12-05 6:26 ` Julia Lawall
2014-12-05 8:04 ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-05 8:40 ` Julia Lawall
2014-12-05 7:18 ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-05 7:57 ` Joe Perches
2014-12-05 8:49 ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-05 22:35 ` terry white
2014-12-05 7:21 ` Julia Lawall
2014-12-05 7:41 ` Joe Perches
2014-12-07 10:44 ` Julia Lawall
2014-12-07 12:30 ` Joe Perches
2014-12-07 12:36 ` Julia Lawall
2014-12-07 12:42 ` Joe Perches
2014-12-04 22:13 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] net-PPP: Fix indentation SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-04 22:15 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] net-PPP: Deletion of unnecessary checks before the function call "kfree" SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-04 22:16 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] net-PPP: Less function calls in mppe_alloc() after error detection SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-04 22:18 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] net-PPP: Delete an unnecessary assignment in mppe_alloc() SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-05 12:22 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-12-05 12:44 ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-05 13:57 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-12-05 21:00 ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-04 22:20 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] net-PPP: Delete another " SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-05 12:23 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-12-05 12:50 ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-05 13:58 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-12-09 19:54 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] net-PPP: Deletion of a few unnecessary checks David Miller
2014-12-12 7:01 ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-12 14:29 ` David Miller
2014-12-12 15:30 ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-12 15:51 ` David Miller
2014-12-12 16:56 ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-12 16:59 ` David Miller
2014-12-12 17:22 ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-12 19:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-12-13 6:05 ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-12 20:07 ` David Miller
2014-12-13 6:17 ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-18 17:23 ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-18 17:25 ` David Miller
2014-12-18 17:44 ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2014-12-20 14:45 ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-20 15:48 ` Lino Sanfilippo
2014-12-20 16:17 ` SF Markus Elfring
2014-12-20 19:30 ` David Miller
2014-12-12 18:46 ` Julia Lawall
2014-12-13 8:12 ` terry white
2014-11-30 16:45 ` [PATCH 2/3] net-PPP: Less function calls in mppe_alloc() after error detection SF Markus Elfring
2014-11-30 16:47 ` [PATCH 3/3] net-PPP: Delete an unnecessary assignment SF Markus Elfring
2014-11-30 19:59 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-11-30 21:16 ` SF Markus Elfring
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