linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] tpm: tpm_try_transmit() refactor error flow.

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Date:   Thu, 18 Oct 2018 06:06:23 +0000
From:   "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
To:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
CC:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Nayna Jain <nayna@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Usyskin, Alexander" <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>,
        "Struk, Tadeusz" <tadeusz.struk@...el.com>,
        "linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org" <linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org" 
        <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] tpm: tpm_try_transmit() refactor error flow.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jarkko Sakkinen [mailto:jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2018 03:15
> To: Winkler, Tomas <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
> Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>; Jason Gunthorpe
> <jgg@...pe.ca>; Nayna Jain <nayna@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>; Usyskin,
> Alexander <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>; Struk, Tadeusz
> <tadeusz.struk@...el.com>; linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org; linux-security-
> module@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org;
> stable@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] tpm: tpm_try_transmit() refactor error flow.
> 
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2018, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > First, rename out_no_locality to out_locality for bailing out on both
> > tpm_cmd_ready() and tpm_request_locality() failure.
> 
> This is unnecessary change and technically it is not a rename: the commit
> message text and the code change do not match. Rename is just a rename
> (i.e. change a variable name foo to bar).

I'm renaming the label because it doesn't match the code flow anymore,
I can change the commit message, but you please review the code.
Tomas