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Every goto in the Linux kernel / Just another day on the linux-kernel mailing list (youtube.com)
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[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

goto is the standard way of performing error handling in C, since there is no exception system or destructor mechanism to free resources when they are going out of scope.