Re: [PATCH] kvm:Return -ENOMEM directly for the function, kvm_create_lapic

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* Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In order to make code paths easier to read in the function,
> kvm_create_lapic we return -ENOMEM when unable to allocate
> memory for a kvm_lapic structure pointer directly. This
> makes the code easier to read and cleaner then jumping
> to a goto label at the end of the function's body for
> returning just the error code, -ENOMEM.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> index 629af0f..88d0cce 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c
> @@ -1687,7 +1687,7 @@ int kvm_create_lapic(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  
>  	apic = kzalloc(sizeof(*apic), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!apic)
> -		goto nomem;
> +		return -ENOMEM;
>  
>  	vcpu->arch.apic = apic;
>  
> @@ -1718,7 +1718,6 @@ int kvm_create_lapic(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	return 0;
>  nomem_free_apic:
>  	kfree(apic);
> -nomem:
>  	return -ENOMEM;
>  }

NAK!

You just half destroyed the nice error handling cascade of labels.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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