linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: remove redundant goto

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Date:   Sat, 31 Aug 2019 06:30:18 -0400
From:   "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: exfat: remove redundant goto

On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 19:15:23 +0100, Colin King said:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>
> The goto after a return is never executed, so it is redundant and can
> be removed.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Structurally dead code")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Good catch....

> -	if (dentry < -1) {
> +	if (dentry < -1)
>  		return FFS_NOTFOUND;
> -		goto out;
> -	}

But the wrong fix. The code *used* to have returns like this all over the
place, but that meant it returns with a lock held - whoops.  The *other* 287 or
so places I changed to 'ret = FFS_yaddayadda',  followed by a 'goto out' but I
apparently missed one.

And thanks a bunch for feeding it to Coverity :)



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