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

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Message-ID: <20151202062048.GK7289@mwanda>
Date:	Wed, 2 Dec 2015 09:20:48 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Cc:	Ben Romer <benjamin.romer@...sys.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 Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 10:32:49AM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> By "common exit path" do you mean mixing up of success and error paths?


Normally it's just the error paths which are mixed together.  Back in
the day, this unisys driver had tons of error handling bugs so that I
didn't even bother reporting them all.

http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/pipermail/driverdev-devel/2015-May/068932.html
http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/pipermail/driverdev-devel/2015-May/069073.html

regards,
dan carpenter
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