linux-ext4 - [PATCH v4 03/27] mm: fix mapping_set_error call in me_pagecache

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Message-Id: <20170509154930.29524-4-jlayton@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue,  9 May 2017 11:49:06 -0400
From:   Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v4 03/27] 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 27f7210e7fab..4b56e53e5378 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ 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);
-- 
2.9.3