2023-03-19 11:41:43

by Leon Romanovsky

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] RDMA/erdma: Fix exception handling in erdma_accept_newconn()

On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 09:15:58PM +0100, Markus Elfring wrote:
> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2023 21:08:58 +0100
>
> The label “error” was used to jump to another pointer check despite of
> the detail in the implementation of the function “erdma_accept_newconn”
> that it was determined already that corresponding variables contained
> still null pointers.
>
> 1. Thus return directly if
>    * the cep state is not the value “ERDMA_EPSTATE_LISTENING”
>      or
>    * a call of the function “erdma_cep_alloc” failed.
>
> 2. Use more appropriate labels instead.
>
> 3. Delete two questionable checks.
>
> 4. Omit extra initialisations (for the variables “new_cep”, “new_s” and “ret”)
>    which became unnecessary with this refactoring.
>
>
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
>
> Fixes: 920d93eac8b97778fef48f34f10e58ddf870fc2a ("RDMA/erdma: Add connection management (CM) support")
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/erdma/erdma_cm.c | 39 +++++++++++---------------
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

Same comment as for your RDMA/siw patch.

Thanks