[PATCH 5/7] staging: lustre: Less checks in mgc_process_recover_log() after error detection
Dan Carpenter
dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Mon Dec 14 12:38:40 UTC 2015
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 01:04:14PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> >> A few checks would be performed by the mgc_process_recover_log() function
> >> even if it is known already that the passed variable "pages" contained
> >> a null pointer.
> >>
> >> * Let us return directly if a call of the kcalloc() function failed.
> >>
> >> * Move assignments for the variables "eof" and "req" behind
> >> this memory allocation.
> >
> > Why?
>
> The positions of their initialisation depends on the selected exception
> handling implementation, doesn't it?
>
> Can you accept the proposed changes around the affected memory allocations?
>
Just leave it as-is if there is no reason.
>
> > Then in the next patch it moves again.
>
> This detail is a matter of patch granularity.
>
>
> > It's like cup shuffle to read these patches sometimes.
>
> Do you prefer to stash any changes together for a bigger update step?
Yes. Patches 5 and 6 would be easier to review if they were folded into
one patch.
regards,
dan carpenter
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