It better returns -EOPNOTSUPP instead of -EINVAL which has meaning of the argument is an inappropriate value. It doesn't make sense in the case of that a file system doesn't support bmap operation. -EINVAL could make confusion in the userspace perspective. Signed-off-by: Leesoo Ahn <lsahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/inode.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index 8fefb69e1f84..c13cac26f08d 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -1837,7 +1837,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(iput); int bmap(struct inode *inode, sector_t *block) { if (!inode->i_mapping->a_ops->bmap) - return -EINVAL; + return -EOPNOTSUPP; *block = inode->i_mapping->a_ops->bmap(inode->i_mapping, *block); return 0; -- 2.34.1