> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpen...@oracle.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 2:25 AM
> To: KY Srinivasan <k...@microsoft.com>
> Cc: gre...@linuxfoundation.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> de...@linuxdriverproject.org; oher...@suse.com;
> jbottom...@parallels.com; h...@infradead.org; linux-s...@vger.kernel.org;
> a...@canonical.com; vkuzn...@redhat.com; jasow...@redhat.com;
> martin.peter...@oracle.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] scsi: storvsc: Properly support Fibre Channel devices
> 
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 04:14:18PM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > +   ret = vmbus_sendpacket(device->channel, vstor_packet,
> > +                          (sizeof(struct vstor_packet) -
> > +                          vmscsi_size_delta),
> > +                          (unsigned long)request,
> > +                          VM_PKT_DATA_INBAND,
> > +
> VMBUS_DATA_PACKET_FLAG_COMPLETION_REQUESTED);
> > +
> > +   if (ret != 0)
> > +           goto cleanup;
> > +
> > +   t = wait_for_completion_timeout(&request->wait_event, 5*HZ);
> > +   if (t == 0) {
> > +           ret = -ETIMEDOUT;
> > +           goto cleanup;
> > +   }
> > +
> > +   if (vstor_packet->operation != VSTOR_OPERATION_COMPLETE_IO
> ||
> > +       vstor_packet->status != 0)
> > +           goto cleanup;
> 
> "cleanup" is a misleading name because it doesn't clean up anything.
> Do nothing gotos are a pain in the butt and they always introduce bugs.
> For example, you appear to have forgotten to set the error code.  But
> because it's a do-nothing goto it's ambiguous so perhaps returning
> success was intended.
> 
> Empirically this style of coding causes bugs.  It does not prevent them.
> It is a bad style if you believe in measuring, evidence and science.

Thanks Dan. I will fix this and resend.

K. Y

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