linux-kernel - [PATCH] lmLogOpen() broken failure exit

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Date:	Sun, 5 Jun 2011 19:22:56 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	shaggy@...nel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] lmLogOpen() broken failure exit

Callers of lmLogOpen() expect it to return -E... on failure exits, which
is what it returns, except for the case of blkdev_get_by_dev() failure.
It that case lmLogOpen() return the error with the wrong sign...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
---
diff --git a/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c b/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c
index 278e3fb..583636f 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c
@@ -1123,7 +1123,7 @@ int lmLogOpen(struct super_block *sb)
 	bdev = blkdev_get_by_dev(sbi->logdev, FMODE_READ|FMODE_WRITE|FMODE_EXCL,
 				 log);
 	if (IS_ERR(bdev)) {
-		rc = -PTR_ERR(bdev);
+		rc = PTR_ERR(bdev);
 		goto free;
 	}
 
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