>> Do you disagree to the application of the Linux coding style then >> for the recommended exception handling? > > No, that's not what I mean. My point is the exception handling in this > patch is simple and no need to add 'goto' statement which does not help > to improve readability. Do we come along different programming imaginations? > And I agree it is helpful for the cases where a function exits from multiple locations > and more same cleanup work need to do. Can this view fit also to calls of the function “kobject_put”? https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1251326/ https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/8bfd018ef4add083a35a6a94a8da045cf3af51b6.1591063271.git.baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/iommu/iommu.c?id=7cc31613734c4870ae32f5265d576ef296621343#n478 https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.7/source/drivers/iommu/iommu.c#L478 Regards, Markus