linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] IB/nes: Delete unnecessary braces

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Message-ID: <1488825451.2210.14.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Mon, 06 Mar 2017 10:37:31 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Faisal Latif <faisal.latif@...el.com>,
        Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
        Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] IB/nes: Delete unnecessary braces

On Mon, 2017-03-06 at 18:43 +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> Do not use curly brackets at some source code places
> where a single statement should be sufficient.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c
[]
> @@ -137,11 +136,7 @@ static struct ib_mw *nes_alloc_mw(struct ib_pd *ibpd, enum ib_mw_type type,
>  		nes_put_cqp_request(nesdev, cqp_request);
>  		kfree(nesmr);
>  		nes_free_resource(nesadapter, nesadapter->allocated_mrs, stag_index);
> -		if (!ret) {
> -			return ERR_PTR(-ETIME);
> -		} else {
> -			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> -		}
> +		return ERR_PTR(ret ? -ENOMEM : -ETIME);

Using a goto error label for this block would
probably be more common kernel style ere.