This patch series cleans up the error handling in ext4's namei.c file to use the ERR_PTR convention intead of using a separate int * to return the error code. (This code comes from ext3 and predates the introduction of the ERR_PTR coding convention). Theodore Ts'o (6): ext4: propagate errors up to ext4_find_entry()'s callers ext4: convert ext4_dx_find_entry() to use the ERR_PTR convention ext4: change ext4_getblk() to use the ERR_PTR convention ext4: convert ext4_bread() to use the ERR_PTR convention ext4: convert dx_probe() to use ERR_PTR convention ext4: convert do_split() to use ERR_PTR convention fs/ext4/dir.c | 8 +-- fs/ext4/ext4.h | 6 +- fs/ext4/inode.c | 55 +++++++-------- fs/ext4/namei.c | 210 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------- fs/ext4/super.c | 18 +++-- 5 files changed, 145 insertions(+), 152 deletions(-) -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html