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. Also, later patches will require a negative error code here. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- 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 2527dfeddb00..3c5e0b8162f3 100644 --- a/mm/memory-failure.c +++ b/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ 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); -- 2.9.4