linux-ext4 - [PATCH v6 01/20] mm: fix mapping_set_error call in me_pagecache

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Date:   Mon, 12 Jun 2017 08:22:53 -0400
From:   Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        tytso@....edu, axboe@...nel.dk, mawilcox@...rosoft.com,
        ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com, corbet@....net,
        Chris Mason <clm@...com>, Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v6 01/20] mm: fix mapping_set_error call in me_pagecache_dirty

The error code should be negative. Since this ends up in the default
case anyway, this is harmless, but it's less confusing to negate it.
Also, later patches will require a negative error code here.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
---
 mm/memory-failure.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory-failure.c b/mm/memory-failure.c
index 342fac9ba89b..55bc61791fe1 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ static int me_pagecache_dirty(struct page *p, unsigned long pfn)
 		 * the first EIO, but we're not worse than other parts
 		 * of the kernel.
 		 */
-		mapping_set_error(mapping, EIO);
+		mapping_set_error(mapping, -EIO);
 	}
 
 	return me_pagecache_clean(p, pfn);
-- 
2.13.0