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Date:   Sun, 5 Nov 2017 08:30:13 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Eugene Korenevsky <ekorenevsky@...il.com>,
        Günter Röck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Jaejoong Kim <climbbb.kim@...il.com>,
        Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@...ux.intel.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: core: Improve unlocking of a mutex in two functions

On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 12:25:19AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 9:12 PM, SF Markus Elfring
> <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> > Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 21:00:46 +0100
> >
> > * Add jump targets so that a call of the function "mutex_unlock" is stored
> >   only twice in these function implementations.
> >
> > * Replace five calls by goto statements.
> >
> > This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> 
> NAKed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>

Don't worry, or waste your time, I don't take patches from this author
as they are in my blacklist.

greg k-h

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