[PATCH] keys: asymmetric: fix error return code in software_key_query()
David Howells
dhowells at redhat.com
Thu Jul 23 07:31:23 UTC 2020
Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > if (IS_ERR(tfm))
> > return PTR_ERR(tfm);
> >
> > + ret = -ENOMEM;
>
> This is extremely confusing to read way to handle 'ret'.
>
> Would be way more cleaner to be just simple and stupid:
>
> if (!key) {
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> goto error_free_tfm;
> }
I agree, but we have some people who will (or who used to) moan at you for
doing in four lines what you could've done in three. I don't know if this is
still the standard.
David
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