On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 14:29:06 +0200
Jean Delvare <jdelv...@suse.de> wrote:

> Chapter 7 (Centralized exiting of functions) of the coding style
> documentation is unclear at times, and lacks some information (such
> as the possibility to indent labels with a single space.) Clarify and
> complete it.

OK, I've applied this (finally) to the docs tree, sorry for sitting on it
for so long.  One question, though...

>  A common type of bug to be aware of is "one err bugs" which look like this:
>  
> -     err:
> +      err:
>               kfree(foo->bar);
>               kfree(foo);
>               return ret;
>  
>  The bug in this code is that on some exit paths "foo" is NULL.  Normally the

...except that kfree() can handle null pointers just fine, so this isn't
actually a bug, right?  Someday when somebody has time it would be good to
come up with a better example.

Thanks,

jon
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