[PATCH] nilfs2: Fix return in nilfs_mkdir

From: Ryusuke Konishi

Date: Wed May 20 2026 - 06:17:03 EST


From: Hongling Zeng <zenghongling@xxxxxxxxxx>

Return NULL instead of passing zero to ERR_PTR.
Fixes smatch warning:
- fs/nilfs2/namei.c:261 nilfs_mkdir() warn: passing zero to 'ERR_PTR'

Fixes: 88d5baf69082 ("Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *")
Signed-off-by: Hongling Zeng <zenghongling@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Hi Viacheslav,

Please add this to the queue for the next cycle.

This is one of the fixes by Hongling Zeng, a patch that individually
corrects a semantic issue (which is harmless in execution) related to
the use of the ERR_PTR macro that arose from a recent VFS change.

Thanks,
Ryusuke Konishi

fs/nilfs2/namei.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/namei.c b/fs/nilfs2/namei.c
index 40ac679ec56e..e2fe95de3d71 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/namei.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/namei.c
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ static struct dentry *nilfs_mkdir(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
else
nilfs_transaction_abort(dir->i_sb);

- return ERR_PTR(err);
+ return err ? ERR_PTR(err) : NULL;

out_fail:
drop_nlink(inode);
--
2.43.0