linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: Improve error handling during initialization

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Date:   Sat, 04 Feb 2017 19:47:14 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ross.lagerwall@...rix.com
Cc:     xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com, jgross@...e.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, wei.liu2@...rix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: Improve error handling during
 initialization

From: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@...rix.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 15:50:22 +0000

> * Delay timer creation so that if initializing a queue fails, the timer
> has not been setup yet.

setup_timer() doesn't do anything that must be "undone" if an error
occurs and we have to cleanup.

It just assigns some values to some timer struct fields, that's it.

Therefore this change is extraneous and unnecessary.