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

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Date:	Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:38:40 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
	lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] staging: lustre: Less checks in
 mgc_process_recover_log() after error detection

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 01:04:14PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> >> 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?
> 
> The positions of their initialisation depends on the selected exception 
> handling implementation, doesn't it?
> 
> Can you accept the proposed changes around the affected memory allocations?
> 

Just leave it as-is if there is no reason.

> 
> > Then in the next patch it moves again.
> 
> This detail is a matter of patch granularity.
> 
> 
> > It's like cup shuffle to read these patches sometimes.
> 
> Do you prefer to stash any changes together for a bigger update step?

Yes.  Patches 5 and 6 would be easier to review if they were folded into
one patch.

regards,
dan carpenter

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