efivarfs: Return a consistent error when efivarfs_get_inode() fails
authorMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:41:03 +0000 (12:41 +0100)
committerMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:39:28 +0000 (10:39 +0000)
Instead of returning -ENOSPC if efivarfs_get_inode() fails we should
be returning -ENOMEM, since running out of memory is the only reason
it can fail.  Furthermore, that's the error value used everywhere else
in this file. It's also less likely to confuse users that hit this
error case.

Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
drivers/firmware/efivars.c

index 6a858d1..58cec62 100644 (file)
@@ -911,7 +911,7 @@ static int efivarfs_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 
        inode = efivarfs_get_inode(dir->i_sb, dir, mode, 0);
        if (!inode)
-               return -ENOSPC;
+               return -ENOMEM;
 
        var = kzalloc(sizeof(struct efivar_entry), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!var) {