Re: [PATCH] iio/gyro/bmg160_core: Improve unlocking of a mutex in five functions

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 07:54:22PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:15:32 +0100
> SF Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:06:49 +0100
> > 
> > * Add jump targets so that a call of the function "mutex_unlock" is stored
> >   only once in these function implementations.
> > 
> > * Replace 19 calls by goto statements.
> > 
> > This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hi Markus,
> 
> Some of these are good and sensible changes - others break the code.
> Please be careful to fully check all the resulting paths and ensure
> we don't change wether the lock is still held in all exit paths.
> Note a function that isn't lockdep annotated should not be holding
> any locks, that it took, upon exit.

Please note that you are dealing with someone who is on many kernel
maintainer's email-blacklist, including my own.  I've found it's just
not worth the time and energy in responding to these emails, it's a
time-sink you will never find your way out of.

good luck!

greg k-h