提交 ea040360 编写于 作者: D Dan Carpenter 提交者: Jonathan Corbet

CodingStyle: add some more error handling guidelines

I added a paragraph on choosing label names, and updated the example
code to use a better label name.  I also cleaned up the example code to
more modern style by moving the allocation out of the initializer and
changing the NULL check.

Perhaps the most common type of error handling bug in the kernel is "one
err bugs".  CodingStyle already says that we should "avoid nesting" by
using error labels and one err style error handling tends to have
multiple indent levels, so this was already bad style.  But I've added a
new paragraph explaining how to avoid one err bugs by using multiple
error labels which is, hopefully, more clear.
Signed-off-by: NDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NJulia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
[jc: added GFP_KERNEL to kmalloc() call]
Signed-off-by: NJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
上级 86d3e023
......@@ -392,7 +392,12 @@ The goto statement comes in handy when a function exits from multiple
locations and some common work such as cleanup has to be done. If there is no
cleanup needed then just return directly.
The rationale is:
Choose label names which say what the goto does or why the goto exists. An
example of a good name could be "out_buffer:" if the goto frees "buffer". Avoid
using GW-BASIC names like "err1:" and "err2:". Also don't name them after the
goto location like "err_kmalloc_failed:"
The rationale for using gotos is:
- unconditional statements are easier to understand and follow
- nesting is reduced
......@@ -403,9 +408,10 @@ The rationale is:
int fun(int a)
{
int result = 0;
char *buffer = kmalloc(SIZE);
char *buffer;
if (buffer == NULL)
buffer = kmalloc(SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buffer)
return -ENOMEM;
if (condition1) {
......@@ -413,14 +419,25 @@ int fun(int a)
...
}
result = 1;
goto out;
goto out_buffer;
}
...
out:
out_buffer:
kfree(buffer);
return result;
}
A common type of bug to be aware of it "one err bugs" which look like this:
err:
kfree(foo->bar);
kfree(foo);
return ret;
The bug in this code is that on some exit paths "foo" is NULL. Normally the
fix for this is to split it up into two error labels "err_bar:" and "err_foo:".
Chapter 8: Commenting
Comments are good, but there is also a danger of over-commenting. NEVER
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