linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] video: smscufx: Less checks in ufx_usb

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Message-id: <1923231.ySCFlVkifY@amdc3058>
Date:   Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:46:32 +0200
From:   Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@...well.net>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] video: smscufx: Less checks in ufx_usb_probe()
 after error detection

On Sunday, January 07, 2018 05:02:21 PM SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 15:56:11 +0100
> 
> Up to four checks could be repeated by the ufx_usb_probe() function
> during error handling even if the relevant properties can be determined
> for the involved variables before by source code analysis.
> 
> * Return directly after a call of the function "kzalloc" failed
>   at the beginning.
> 
> * Adjust jump targets so that extra checks can be omitted at the end.
> 
> * Delete initialisations for the variables "info" and "retval"
>   which became unnecessary with this refactoring.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>

Patch queued for 4.17, thanks.

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics