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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/gfs2/ops_export.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/gfs2/ops_export.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/ops_export.c b/fs/gfs2/ops_export.c index 4b8c6a9893e4..470e8829e7f4 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/ops_export.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/ops_export.c @@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ static struct dentry *gfs2_get_parent(struct dentry *child) if (!inode) return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); + /* + * In case of an error, @inode carries the error value, and we + * have to return that as a(n invalid) pointer to dentry. + */ if (IS_ERR(inode)) return ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(inode)); |