Re: [PATCH] net/udp_offload: Drop unnecessary continue

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Wed Aug 13 2014 - 13:06:54 EST


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 07:48:11AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-08-13 at 14:46 +0530, Himangi Saraogi wrote:
> > Continue is not needed at the bottom of a loop.
> >
> > The Coccinelle semantic patch implementing this change is:
> >
> > @@
> > @@
> >
> > for (...;...;...) {
> > ...
> > if (...) {
> > ...
> > - continue;
> > }
> > }
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > net/ipv4/udp_offload.c | 4 +---
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/ipv4/udp_offload.c b/net/ipv4/udp_offload.c
> > index 59035bc..62d5b9b 100644
> > --- a/net/ipv4/udp_offload.c
> > +++ b/net/ipv4/udp_offload.c
> > @@ -269,10 +269,8 @@ unflush:
> > continue;
> >
> > uh2 = (struct udphdr *)(p->data + off);
> > - if ((*(u32 *)&uh->source != *(u32 *)&uh2->source)) {
> > + if ((*(u32 *)&uh->source != *(u32 *)&uh2->source))
> > NAPI_GRO_CB(p)->same_flow = 0;
> > - continue;
> > - }
> > }
> >
> > skb_gro_pull(skb, sizeof(struct udphdr)); /* pull encapsulating udp header */
>
>
> Please do not do that.
>
> If we add another check later, we'll miss that the 'continue;' needs to
> be put back.
>
> GRO stack is quite difficult to maintain, I prefer we keep this as is
> for consistency and code readability.

+1
this code as-is is definitely more readable

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