Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Use common error handling code in setup_new_fdt()

Dan Carpenter [off-list ref] writes:

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 06:22:07PM -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:

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SF Markus Elfring [off-list ref] writes:

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From: Markus Elfring <redacted>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2018 09:03:42 +0100

Add a jump target so that a bit of exception handling can be better reused
at the end of this function.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <redacted>
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 arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_file_64.c | 28 ++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

I liked it. Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann <redacted>

You know that compilers already re-use string constants so this doesn't
actually save memory?

Sure, but it's still clearer to only have the string appear once in the
code.

Also we should be preserving the error codes
instead of always returning -EINVAL.

The error codes come from libfdt code, so they don't necessarily make
sense in the kernel. eg. FDT_ERR_NOSPACE == 3 == ESRCH.

Perhaps we should be trying harder to convert them, but that's a
criticism of the original code not this patch.

cheers