Re: [PATCH 04/14] RDMA/cxgb4: Use common error handling code in recover_queues()

[Johannes Thumshirn]

On 02/08/2017 10:14 PM, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 15:51:58 +0100
> 
> Add a jump target so that a bit of exception handling can be better reused
> at the end of this function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/device.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/device.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/device.c
> index 444c28206dae..46410c4a9afb 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/device.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/device.c
> @@ -1467,10 +1467,9 @@ static void recover_queues(struct uld_ctx *ctx)
>  	idr_for_each(&ctx->dev->qpidr, count_qps, &count);
>  
>  	qp_list.qps = kcalloc(count, sizeof(*qp_list.qps), GFP_ATOMIC);
> -	if (!qp_list.qps) {
> -		spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->dev->lock);
> -		return;
> -	}
> +	if (!qp_list.qps)
> +		goto unlock;
> +
>  	qp_list.idx = 0;
>  
>  	/* add and ref each qp so it doesn't get freed */
> @@ -1488,6 +1487,7 @@ static void recover_queues(struct uld_ctx *ctx)
>  	spin_lock_irq(&ctx->dev->lock);
>  	WARN_ON(ctx->dev->db_state != RECOVERY);
>  	ctx->dev->db_state = STOPPED;
> +unlock:
>  	spin_unlock_irq(&ctx->dev->lock);
>  }
>  
> 

This patch is rather pointless IMHO. Using goto labels only brings
benefits if you have more than one code path jumping to them this one
just confuses the readers.

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	Johannes
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