On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 07:28:09PM +0300, Fedor Pchelkin wrote:
> On 2/1/23 6:45 PM, Simon Horman wrote:
> > I see this would work by virtue of kfree(key) doing nothing
> > of key is NULL, the error case in question. And that otherwise key is
> > non-NULL if this path is hit.
> > 
> > However, the idiomatic approach to error handling is for the error path
> > to unwind resource allocations in the reverse order that they were made.
> > And for goto labels to control how far to unwind.
> > 
> 
> You are right, thanks. Have to keep 'goto' structured, otherwise there
> would be a 'goto' mess.
> 
> > So I think the following would be more in keeping with the intention of the
> > code. Even if it is a somewhat more verbose change.
> > 
> > *compile tested only!*
> 
> I'll test this on error paths and resend the patch.

Thanks, much appreciated.
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