linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ubifs: Fix error codes in ubifs

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Message-ID: <1451829283.13942.6.camel@gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 03 Jan 2016 15:54:43 +0200
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Cc:	adrian.hunter@...el.com, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ubifs: Fix error codes in ubifs_iget()

On Sun, 2016-01-03 at 15:51 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-01-02 at 23:11 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > We cannot use positive error codes in ERR_PTR().
> > IS_ERR() won't catch them.
> 
> Right, but why there is a "err = -EINVAL;" when at 'out_invalid'.

Sorry Richard, I edited the sentence and did not notice it was messy.

Here is what I wanted to say: right, but there is a "err = -EINVAL' at
the end of 'out_invalid'.
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