linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] mtd: cfi_cmdset_0001: Fix exception handling in cfi_intelext

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Message-ID: <87o6xyab2r.fsf@bootlin.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:26:52 +0100
From: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
Cc: kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,  linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
  Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,  Vignesh Raghavendra
 <vigneshr@...com>,  cocci@...ia.fr,  LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] mtd: cfi_cmdset_0001: Fix exception handling in
 cfi_intelext_setup()

Hi,

On 04/03/2025 at 20:21:53 +01, Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de> wrote:

> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:13:51 +0100
>
> The label “setup_err” was used to jump to another pointer check despite of
> the detail in the implementation of the function “cfi_intelext_setup”
> that it was determined already that a corresponding variable contained
> a null pointer because of a failed memory allocation.

Can you please rephrase the commit log? It is super hard to understand.

Thanks,
Miquèl