[PATCH] ext4: Fix ERR_PTR(0) in ext4_mkdir()

From: Hongling Zeng

Date: Wed May 20 2026 - 03:47:01 EST


When mkdir succeeds, ext4_mkdir() returns ERR_PTR(0) which is incorrect.
It should return NULL instead for success and ERR_PTR() only with
negative error codes for failure.

Fixes: 88d5baf69082 ("Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *")
Signed-off-by: Hongling Zeng <zenghongling@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/namei.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index 4a47fbd8dd30..8cadaeb15b2b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -3054,7 +3054,7 @@ static struct dentry *ext4_mkdir(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
out_retry:
if (err == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(dir->i_sb, &retries))
goto retry;
- return ERR_PTR(err);
+ return err ? ERR_PTR(err) : NULL;
}

/*
--
2.25.1