On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 11:20:42AM +0200, Markus Elfring wrote: > * The label “err_out” can be replaced by direct return statement, > can't it? No, it cannot. It keeps the error handling code out-of-line so that the function body remains readable. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette