From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] net-PPP: Deletion of a few unnecessary checks Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:29:50 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20141212.092950.1840808214143867233.davem@davemloft.net> References: <5480DA32.8000201@users.sourceforge.net> <20141209.145447.2234157264287438778.davem@davemloft.net> <548A92E2.8090304@users.sourceforge.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com, paulus@samba.org, linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, julia.lawall@lip6.fr To: elfring@users.sourceforge.net Return-path: In-Reply-To: <548A92E2.8090304@users.sourceforge.net> Sender: linux-ppp-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 08:01:54 +0100 >> Generally speaking, it is advisable to not leave error pointers in data >> structures, even if they are about to be free'd up in an error path anyways. >> >> Therefore I do not like some of the patches in this series. > > Can you give any more concrete feedback here? I gave you very concrete feedback, I said exactly that I don't want error pointers left in data structure members. I cannot describe my requirements any more precisely than that.