Re: [PATCH 00/10] md/dm-crypt: Fine-tuning for five function implementations

From: Mike Snitzer
Date: Wed Sep 28 2016 - 11:38:16 EST


On Wed, Sep 28 2016 at 11:34am -0400,
SF Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 17:25:17 +0200
>
> Some update suggestions were taken into account
> from static source code analysis.
>
> Markus Elfring (10):
> Use kcalloc() in crypt_alloc_tfms()
> Reduce the scope for a variable in crypt_alloc_tfms()
> Rename a jump label in crypt_message()
> Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation in crypt_message()
> Rename a jump label in crypt_set_key()
> Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation in crypt_set_key()
> Rename a jump label in crypt_iv_tcw_whitening()
> Return directly after a failed crypto_alloc_ahash() in crypt_iv_essiv_ctr()
> Two checks and one function call less in crypt_iv_essiv_ctr() after error detection
> Delete unnecessary variable initialisations in crypt_iv_essiv_ctr()
>
> drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

These are _not_ the kind of changes I want to be seeing. Churn in the
name of "fine-tuning".

Nack.