netdev - Re: [PATCH] GRE: Use IS_ERR_OR_NULL in gre_gso

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Date:	Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:28:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	horms@...ge.net.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org, xeb@...l.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH] GRE: Use IS_ERR_OR_NULL in gre_gso_segment

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 03:24:33 -0700

> On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 15:48 +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>
>> ---
>>  net/ipv4/gre.c |    2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/net/ipv4/gre.c b/net/ipv4/gre.c
>> index d2d5a99..0ae998b 100644
>> --- a/net/ipv4/gre.c
>> +++ b/net/ipv4/gre.c
>> @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *gre_gso_segment(struct sk_buff *skb,
>>  	/* segment inner packet. */
>>  	enc_features = skb->dev->hw_enc_features & netif_skb_features(skb);
>>  	segs = skb_mac_gso_segment(skb, enc_features);
>> -	if (!segs || IS_ERR(segs))
>> +	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(segs))
>>  		goto out;
>>  
>>  	skb = segs;
> 
> Hi Simon
> 
> AFAIK I would change things so that NULL is not a possible value.
> 
> I don't really like IS_ERR_OR_NULL() because it hides some lazyness of
> ours, and is more expensive (2 tests)
> 
> If we return NULL for an error, why not instead return -Esomething,
> since caller is OK to get -ENOMEM,-Exxxxx,... ?

Sometimes IS_ERR_OR_NULL is appropriate, but not here, since the caller
can more easily just provide good error codes all the time instead of
sometimes returning nULL.
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