RE: [PATCH 3/6] hv:scsi:Untangle the storage protocol negotiation from the vmbus protocol negotiation.

From: KY Srinivasan
Date: Mon Jun 01 2015 - 15:18:11 EST




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, June 1, 2015 3:43 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan
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> Mange
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] hv:scsi:Untangle the storage protocol negotiation
> from the vmbus protocol negotiation.
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 01:29:16PM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > - if (vstor_packet->operation != VSTOR_OPERATION_COMPLETE_IO
> ||
> > - vstor_packet->status != 0)
> > + if (vstor_packet->status != 0) {
> > + ret = -EINVAL;
> > goto cleanup;
> > + }
>
> There is not actually any cleanup, goto cleanup is just a do-nothing
> goto.
>
> In the original code, we returned success here. That always looked like
> a "forgot to set the error code" bug to me, but do-nothing labels always
> introduce ambiguous looking "forgot to set the error code" bugs so I can
> never be positive.
>
> Could you take a look at the other "goto cleanup;" places in this
> function and maybe add a comment, change it to something more clear like
> "return 0;" or fix the error code?

Thanks Dan; will do.

K. Y
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter

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