[Devel] Re: [PATCH -mm] cgroups: fix failure path in cgroup_write_event_control()

Paul Menage menage at google.com
Wed Feb 24 08:06:20 PST 2010


On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov
<kirill at shutemov.name> wrote:
>>
>> Using a single goto label to cleanup multi failure paths can
>> get things wrong quite easily, while multi labels makes the
>> code cleaner.
>
> I disagree.
> It's easer to make mistake on changing code with multi failure
> paths, if you want to move a code within function.

I'm on Kirill's side here. Being able to have a single "cleanup
everything" error path makes the code a lot more maintainable. It may
be inappropriate for really performance-critical functions, but that's
not the case here.

Paul
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