linux-kernel - [PATCH] jfs: 0 is not valid errno value

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Date:	Sun, 11 May 2008 22:08:45 +0200
From:	Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@...il.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...tin.ibm.com>,
	jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH] jfs: 0 is not valid errno value

... so return NULL from jfs_lookup

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@...il.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...tin.ibm.com>
Cc: jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.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);
-- 
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