linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [media] spca500: Use common error handling code in spca500

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Date:   Fri, 22 Sep 2017 19:09:04 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
cc:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org, Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [media] spca500: Use common error handling code in
 spca500_synch310()



On Fri, 22 Sep 2017, SF Markus Elfring wrote:

> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 18:45:07 +0200
>
> Adjust a jump target so that a bit of exception handling can be better
> reused at the end of this function.
>
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> ---
>  drivers/media/usb/gspca/spca500.c | 21 ++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/gspca/spca500.c b/drivers/media/usb/gspca/spca500.c
> index da2d9027914c..1f224f5e5b19 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/gspca/spca500.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/gspca/spca500.c
> @@ -501,7 +501,6 @@ static int spca500_full_reset(struct gspca_dev *gspca_dev)
>  static int spca500_synch310(struct gspca_dev *gspca_dev)
>  {
> -	if (usb_set_interface(gspca_dev->dev, gspca_dev->iface, 0) < 0) {
> -		PERR("Set packet size: set interface error");
> -		goto error;
> -	}
> +	if (usb_set_interface(gspca_dev->dev, gspca_dev->iface, 0) < 0)
> +		goto report_failure;
> +
>  	spca500_ping310(gspca_dev);
> @@ -514,12 +513,12 @@ static int spca500_synch310(struct gspca_dev *gspca_dev)
>  	/* Windoze use pipe with altsetting 6 why 7 here */
> -	if (usb_set_interface(gspca_dev->dev,
> -				gspca_dev->iface,
> -				gspca_dev->alt) < 0) {
> -		PERR("Set packet size: set interface error");
> -		goto error;
> -	}
> +	if (usb_set_interface(gspca_dev->dev, gspca_dev->iface, gspca_dev->alt)
> +	    < 0)
> +		goto report_failure;
> +
>  	return 0;
> -error:
> +
> +report_failure:
> +	PERR("Set packet size: set interface error");
>  	return -EBUSY;
>  }

Why change the label name?  They are both equally uninformative.

julia