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SubjectRe: [PATCH] vfs: fix vmplice_to_user()
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 10:04:58AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> >
> > This patch fixes two bugs:
>
> Mind if I change it to avoid the "goto"? I don't think goto is evil,
> but in this case it doesn't seem to buy anything, except to perhaps
> make the patch a bit smaller at the expense of making the result a bit
> harder to read.
>
> Replacing the
>
> if (ret <= 0)
> goto out;
>
> with
>
> if (ret > 0) {
> ...
> }
>
> also allows moving the various variable declarations closer to their use.
>
> So something like the attached..

I'm not sure it's better; I've a pending patch that does combination of
rw_copy_check_uvector() with iov_iter_init(), which means that iov
array will be going to the outer scope anyway...


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