linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: unisys: use common return path

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Date:	Wed, 2 Dec 2015 10:31:18 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Ben Romer <benjamin.romer@...sys.com>
Cc:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	sparmaintainer@...sys.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: unisys: use common return path

On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 11:16:16AM -0500, Ben Romer wrote:
> On 12/01/2015 10:57 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >What I meant was that I'm generally opposed to "common exit paths".
> >Mixing all the exit paths together often makes the code more complicated
> >and leads to errors.  That makes sense from a common sense perspective
> >that doing many things is more difficult than doing one thing?  Anyway
> >it's easy enough to verify empirically that this style is bug prone.
> >
> >On the other hand there are times where all exit paths need to unlock or
> >to free a variable and in those cases using a common exit path makes
> >sense.  Just don't standardize on "Every function should only have a
> >single return".
> >
> 
> That works for me. Mainly my issue with it is that I've spent a lot
> of time trying to eliminate "goto Away" code from the drivers, so
> I'd rather not put any back if possible.

But what is wrong with goto?

Quoting from CodingStyle:
"The goto statement comes in handy when a function exits from multiple
locations and some common work such as cleanup has to be done.  If there
is no cleanup needed then just return directly."

I am absolutely fine if you don't want it to be applied but just for
knowing - 
It has multiple exits.
In this case spin_unlock_irqrestore() is the common work.

regards
sudip
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