Re: [PATCH] vfs: fix vmplice_to_user()

From: Al Viro
Date: Tue May 27 2014 - 13:58:01 EST


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:04:58AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This patch fixes two bugs:
>
> Mind if I change it to avoid the "goto"? I don't think goto is evil,
> but in this case it doesn't seem to buy anything, except to perhaps
> make the patch a bit smaller at the expense of making the result a bit
> harder to read.
>
> Replacing the
>
> if (ret <= 0)
> goto out;
>
> with
>
> if (ret > 0) {
> ...
> }
>
> also allows moving the various variable declarations closer to their use.
>
> So something like the attached..

I'm not sure it's better; I've a pending patch that does combination of
rw_copy_check_uvector() with iov_iter_init(), which means that iov
array will be going to the outer scope anyway...
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/