linux-ext4 - [patch] ext4: return -ENOMEM instead of success

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Date:   Wed, 7 Dec 2016 14:21:06 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>
Cc:     Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] ext4: return -ENOMEM instead of success

We should set the error code if kzalloc() fails.

Fixes: 67cf5b09a46f ("ext4: add the basic function for inline data support")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inline.c b/fs/ext4/inline.c
index 9b67f75bdcf7..437df6a1a841 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inline.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inline.c
@@ -341,8 +341,10 @@ static int ext4_update_inline_data(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 
 	len -= EXT4_MIN_INLINE_DATA_SIZE;
 	value = kzalloc(len, GFP_NOFS);
-	if (!value)
+	if (!value) {
+		error = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out;
+	}
 
 	error = ext4_xattr_ibody_get(inode, i.name_index, i.name,
 				     value, len);
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