linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ovl: fix return value of ovl_fill

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Date:   Tue, 6 Dec 2016 11:27:19 +0100
From:   Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:     Geliang Tang <geliangtang@...il.com>
Cc:     "linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ovl: fix return value of ovl_fill_super

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Geliang Tang <geliangtang@...il.com> wrote:
> If kcalloc() failed, the return value of ovl_fill_super() is -EINVAL,
> not -ENOMEM. So this patch sets this value to -ENOMEM before calling
> kcalloc(), and sets it back to -EINVAL after calling kcalloc().

Thanks, applied.

Miklos