On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 04:50:47PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > If "ret" is NULL, then "hs" is also NULL, so there is no need to free > it. config_group_init_type_name() can't fail if the name ("heartbeat" > in this case) is less than CONFIGFS_ITEM_NAME_LEN (20) characters long > so we can just remove this error handling code. Is there a problem we're fixing here? We can make all sorts of arguments about single-exit functions vs immediate returns, but if there isn't a problem, I'm not sure what we gain by code churn. Joel > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> > > diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/heartbeat.c b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/heartbeat.c > index f3f2d95..0bca51b 100644 > --- a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/heartbeat.c > +++ b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/heartbeat.c > @@ -2306,20 +2306,14 @@ static struct config_item_type o2hb_heartbeat_group_type = { > struct config_group *o2hb_alloc_hb_set(void) > { > struct o2hb_heartbeat_group *hs = NULL; > - struct config_group *ret = NULL; > > hs = kzalloc(sizeof(struct o2hb_heartbeat_group), GFP_KERNEL); > if (hs == NULL) > - goto out; > + return NULL; > > config_group_init_type_name(&hs->hs_group, "heartbeat", > &o2hb_heartbeat_group_type); > - > - ret = &hs->hs_group; > -out: > - if (ret == NULL) > - kfree(hs); > - return ret; > + return &hs->hs_group; > } > > void o2hb_free_hb_set(struct config_group *group) -- "Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research." - Wilson Mizner http://www.jlbec.org/ jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html