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From: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>,
	jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH] jfs: 0 is not valid errno value
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 22:08:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080511200842.GN19058@joi> (raw)

... so return NULL from jfs_lookup

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
is it ok to return NULL from this function?
compile tested only
---
 fs/jfs/namei.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/jfs/namei.c b/fs/jfs/namei.c
--- a/fs/jfs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/namei.c
@@ -1455,7 +1455,7 @@ static struct dentry *jfs_lookup(struct inode *dip, struct dentry *dentry, struc
 		free_UCSname(&key);
 		if (rc == -ENOENT) {
 			d_add(dentry, NULL);
-			return ERR_PTR(0);
+			return NULL;
 		} else if (rc) {
 			jfs_err("jfs_lookup: dtSearch returned %d", rc);
 			return ERR_PTR(rc);
-- 

             reply	other threads:[~2008-05-11 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-11 20:08 Marcin Slusarz [this message]
2008-05-12 21:49 ` [PATCH] jfs: 0 is not valid errno value Dave Kleikamp

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