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Message-ID: <20160118212935.69417deb@debian>
Date:	Mon, 18 Jan 2016 21:29:35 +0800
From:	Wang Xiaoqiang <wangxq10@....edu.cn>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] perf/core: Directly return the error pointer instead of use
 'goto'

Hi, Ingo,

    This patch return the error pointer directly, not use 'goto'. Patch
is as follows.

thanks,
Wang Xiaoqiang

>From 33ed914e6d3f3d63698b5e178efd648ca7cd086d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wang Xiaoqiang <wangxq10@....edu.cn>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 21:14:06 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] perf/core: Directly return the error pointer instead of use
 'goto'

Just return the error pointer instead of using "goto" to make
the program structure more clear.

Signed-off-by: Wang Xiaoqiang <wangxq10@....edu.cn>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index bf82441..1d250b2 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -8550,10 +8550,8 @@ perf_event_create_kernel_counter(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu,
 
 	event = perf_event_alloc(attr, cpu, task, NULL, NULL,
 				 overflow_handler, context, -1);
-	if (IS_ERR(event)) {
-		err = PTR_ERR(event);
-		goto err;
-	}
+	if (IS_ERR(event))
+		return event;
 
 	/* Mark owner so we could distinguish it from user events. */
 	event->owner = EVENT_OWNER_KERNEL;
@@ -8584,7 +8582,7 @@ perf_event_create_kernel_counter(struct perf_event_attr *attr, int cpu,
 
 err_free:
 	free_event(event);
-err:
+
 	return ERR_PTR(err);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(perf_event_create_kernel_counter);
-- 
2.1.4


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