while(1) .. break instead of goto

Question

I found the following code in a C program:

while (1)
{
    do_something();
    if (was_an_error()) break;

     do_something_else();
     if (was_an_error()) break;

     [...]

     break;
}
[cleanup code]

Here while(1) is used as local emulation of "finally". You can also write this using gotos:

do_something()
if (was_an_error()) goto out;

do_something_else()
if (was_an_error()) goto out;

[...]
out:
[cleanup code]

I thought the goto solution is a usual idiom. I have seen several occurrences of this idiom in the kernel sources and it is also mentioned in Diomidis Spinellis' "Code Reading" book.

My question is: What solution is better? Is there any specific reason to use the while(1) solution?

Question 943826 doesn't answer my question.

Answer 1

I think that this use (for resource management) of goto is ok.