linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/7] staging: lustre: Less checks in mgc_process_recover

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Message-ID: <20151214110003.GV5284@mwanda>
Date:	Mon, 14 Dec 2015 14:00:03 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] staging: lustre: Less checks in
 mgc_process_recover_log() after error detection

On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 02:57:38PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2015 12:21:17 +0100
> 
> A few checks would be performed by the mgc_process_recover_log() function
> even if it is known already that the passed variable "pages" contained
> a null pointer.
> 
> * Let us return directly if a call of the kcalloc() function failed.
> 
> * Move assignments for the variables "eof" and "req" behind
>   this memory allocation.

Why?  Then in the next patch it moves again.  It's like cup shuffle to
read these patches sometimes.

regards,
dan carpenter


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