linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: pmic_glink_altmode: Use common error handling code in pmic_glink_altmode

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Message-ID: <c25aa425-f350-4ad2-b92e-67de996daed3@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:26:49 +0100
From: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
 kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
 Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>,
 Johan Hovold <johan+linaro@...nel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, freedreno@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-phy@...ts.infradead.org,
 Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk@...cinc.com>,
 Andrzej Hajda <andrzej.hajda@...el.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
 David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@...il.com>,
 Jonas Karlman <jonas@...boo.se>, Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...nel.org>,
 Kuogee Hsieh <quic_khsieh@...cinc.com>,
 Laurent Pinchart <Laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
 Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
 Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
 Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>, Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>,
 Robert Foss <rfoss@...nel.org>, Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: pmic_glink_altmode: Use common error handling
 code in pmic_glink_altmode_probe()



On 2/28/24 19:05, Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:45:13 +0100
> 
> Add a jump target so that a bit of exception handling can be better reused
> at the end of this function implementation.
> 
> This issue was transformed by using the Coccinelle software.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> ---

(+CC Peter)

Hmm.. this looks very similar to the problem that __free solves
with <linux/cleanup.h>..

I know no better, but wouldn't the same mechanism, down to the
usage of DEFINE_FREE work fine for _put-like functions?

Konrad