linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/1] mm: fix mapping_set_error call in me_pagecache

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Date:   Sun,  5 Mar 2017 08:20:02 -0500
From:   Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] 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.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
---
 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 f283c7e0a2a3..f6512c953f9b 100644
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ 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