Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 May 2014 18:57:55 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vfs: fix vmplice_to_user() |
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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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