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Date:   Tue, 15 Aug 2017 17:03:13 +0200
From:   Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To:     Nikitas Angelinas <nikitas.angelinas@...il.com>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk: Clean up do_syslog() error handling

On Sat 2017-07-29 20:36:36, Nikitas Angelinas wrote:
> The error variable in do_syslog() is preemptively set to the error code
> before the error condition is checked, and then set to 0 if the error
> condition is not encountered. This is not necessary, as it is likely
> simpler to return immediately upon encountering the error condition. A
> redundant set of the error variable to 0 is also removed.
> 
> This patch has been build-tested on x86_64, but not tested for
> functionality.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nikitas Angelinas <nikitas.angelinas@...il.com>

The code looks better. Also the patch looks correct.

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>

I have pushed it into for-4.14 branch.

Best Regards,
Petr