Re: [PATCH] RDMA/iw_cgxb4: Fix an error handling path in 'c4iw_connect()'

[Steve Wise]

Those horrible error labels in cxgb* are my bad.  :(   I now always
use descriptive labels.

Stevo

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 3:01 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 09:07:46PM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> > We should jump to fail3 in order to undo the 'xa_insert_irq()' call.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Not sure which Fixes tag to use because of the many refactorings in this
> > area. So I've choosen to use none :).
> > The issue was already there in 4a740838bf44c. This commit has renamed
> > all labels because a new fail1 was introduced. I've not searched further.
> >
> > Naming of error labels should be improved. Having nowadays a fail5
> > between fail2 and fail3 (because fail5 was the last
> > error handling path added) is not that readable.
> > However, it goes beyong the purpose of this patch.
> >
> > Maybe, just using a fail2a, just as already done in 9f5a9632e412 (which
> > introduced fail5) would be enough.
> > ---
> >  drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/cm.c | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> The disaster of the error label aside, this does fix the bug, so
> applied to for-next
>
> Thanks,
> Jason