>> I would appreciate if an unnecessary function call can be avoided here >> so that the affected exception handling can become also a bit more efficient. > > Simpler code is easier to maintain. There are different opinions available around the desired simplicity. > See your patch, you didn't get it correctly at your first try. I wonder myself about the circumstances on how my incomplete update suggestion did happen. > Also, this is not a hot path, I'm curious if approaches around better exception handling can eventually become a "hot topic". > so I see it as a micro-optimization I can agree to this view for this function implementation. > also adding complexity. There are the usual software development trade-offs. > I don't favor that. Thanks for your constructive feedback. Is an identifier like "free_client" a bit nicer (according to the Linux coding style recommendations) than the short jump label "err" in the discussed use case? Regards, Markus -- 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