linux-ext4 - [patch 261/307] ext2: improve ext2

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Message-Id: <200804280916.m3S9G1hI019025@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:16:00 -0700
From:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, akinobu.mita@...il.com,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 261/307] ext2: improve ext2_readdir() return value

From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>

Improve ext2_readdir() return value for ext2_get_page() failure by using the
actual result of ext2_get_page().

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/ext2/dir.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN fs/ext2/dir.c~ext2-improve-ext2_readdir-return-value fs/ext2/dir.c
--- a/fs/ext2/dir.c~ext2-improve-ext2_readdir-return-value
+++ a/fs/ext2/dir.c
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ ext2_readdir (struct file * filp, void *
 				   "bad page in #%lu",
 				   inode->i_ino);
 			filp->f_pos += PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - offset;
-			return -EIO;
+			return PTR_ERR(page);
 		}
 		kaddr = page_address(page);
 		if (unlikely(need_revalidate)) {
_
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