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[PATCH 0/5] pre-decrement in error paths considered harmful

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There are a few instances of

  for (i = 0; i < FOO; ++i) {
    ret = do_stuff(i)
    if (ret)
      goto err;
  }
  ...
  err:
  while (--i)
    undo_stuff(i);

At best, this fails to undo_stuff for i==0, but if i==0 was the case
that failed, we'll end up with an "infinite" loop in the error path
doing nasty stuff.

These were found with a simple coccinelle script

@@
expression i;
identifier l;
statement S;
@@
* l:
* while (--i)
    S

(and there were no false positives).

There's no dependencies between the patches; I just wanted to include
a common cover letter with a little background info.

Rasmus Villemoes (5):
  drm/gma500: fix error path in gma_intel_setup_gmbus()
  drm/i915: fix error path in intel_setup_gmbus()
  net/mlx4: fix some error handling in mlx4_multi_func_init()
  net: sxgbe: fix error paths in sxgbe_platform_probe()
  mm/backing-dev.c: fix error path in wb_init()

 drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/intel_gmbus.c                | 2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_i2c.c                    | 2 +-
 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/cmd.c            | 4 ++--
 drivers/net/ethernet/samsung/sxgbe/sxgbe_platform.c | 4 ++--
 mm/backing-dev.c                                    | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

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[PATCH 0/5] pre-decrement in error paths considered harmful Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> - 2016-02-09 21:20 +0100
  [PATCH 5/5] mm/backing-dev.c: fix error path in wb_init() Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> - 2016-02-09 21:20 +0100
  [PATCH 4/5] net: sxgbe: fix error paths in sxgbe_platform_probe() Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> - 2016-02-09 21:20 +0100
  [PATCH 1/5] drm/gma500: fix error path in gma_intel_setup_gmbus() Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> - 2016-02-09 21:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/5] drm/gma500: fix error path in gma_intel_setup_gmbus() Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2016-02-10 07:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/5] drm/gma500: fix error path in gma_intel_setup_gmbus() Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> - 2016-02-10 08:30 +0100
  [PATCH 3/5] net/mlx4: fix some error handling in mlx4_multi_func_init() Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> - 2016-02-09 21:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/5] net/mlx4: fix some error handling in  mlx4_multi_func_init() Yishai Hadas <yishaih@dev.mellanox.co.il> - 2016-02-10 10:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 3/5] net/mlx4: fix some error handling in mlx4_multi_func_init() Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> - 2016-02-10 19:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 3/5] net/mlx4: fix some error handling in  mlx4_multi_func_init() Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il> - 2016-02-11 10:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 3/5] net/mlx4: fix some error handling in  mlx4_multi_func_init() Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il> - 2016-02-11 11:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/5] net/mlx4: fix some error handling in  mlx4_multi_func_init() Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> - 2016-02-11 17:10 +0100

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