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

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1810180309430.5022@jsakkine-mobl1>
Date:   Thu, 18 Oct 2018 03:14:30 +0300 (EEST)
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
cc:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Nayna Jain <nayna@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>,
        Tadeusz Struk <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).

/Jarkko