Re: [PATCH 4/4] fs: befs: Remove goto from befs_bread_iaddr

[Luis de Bethencourt]

On 02/07/16 09:05, Salah Triki wrote:
> Since goto statement merely returns NULL, replace it with return
> statement.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Salah Triki <salah.triki@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/befs/io.c | 8 ++------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/befs/io.c b/fs/befs/io.c
> index 4223b77..af631a6 100644
> --- a/fs/befs/io.c
> +++ b/fs/befs/io.c
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ befs_bread_iaddr(struct super_block *sb, befs_inode_addr iaddr)
>  	if (iaddr.allocation_group > befs_sb->num_ags) {
>  		befs_error(sb, "BEFS: Invalid allocation group %u, max is %u",
>  			   iaddr.allocation_group, befs_sb->num_ags);
> -		goto error;
> +		return NULL;
>  	}
>  
>  	block = iaddr2blockno(sb, &iaddr);
> @@ -49,13 +49,9 @@ befs_bread_iaddr(struct super_block *sb, befs_inode_addr iaddr)
>  	if (bh == NULL) {
>  		befs_error(sb, "Failed to read block %lu",
>  			   (unsigned long)block);
> -		goto error;
> +		return NULL;
>  	}
>  
>  	befs_debug(sb, "<--- %s", __func__);
>  	return bh;
> -
> -      error:
> -	befs_debug(sb, "<--- %s ERROR", __func__);
> -	return NULL;
>  }
> 

Hi Salah,

The goto statement also calls the debug function. I  know it doesn't look pretty
to have "debug; return; label; debug; return;", but I find these debug calls at
the start and end of functions very useful when reading the log to familiarize
myself with the code or test a change.

An alternative in this case would be to add the function name to the error messages
just before those goto errors. But I don't think that would be better than the
current code.

Just as a heads up there are 2 similar cases to this in fs/befs/btree.c
error:
        befs_debug(sb, "<--- %s ERROR", __func__);
        return BEFS_ERR;

Thanks,
Luis