linux-kernel - Re: selinux: Delete unnecessary variable assignments in policydb

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Date:   Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:20:50 -0400
From:   Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov,
        Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
        James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
        William Roberts <william.c.roberts@...el.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
Subject: Re: selinux: Delete unnecessary variable assignments in policydb_index()

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 2:24 AM, SF Markus Elfring
<elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>> However, I agree with Casey that this patch is mostly just code churn
>> so I'm going to drop this from your series.
>
> How do you think about to return only constant error codes in this function?
> Would it be acceptable to replace any statements “goto out;” with
> “return -ENOMEM;” here instead?

Yes.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com