Re: [syzbot] Re: general protection fault in exfat_get_dentry_cached()

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Subject: Re: general protection fault in exfat_get_dentry_cached()
Author: dmantipov@xxxxxxxxx

#syz test https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git f932fb9b40749d1c9a539d89bb3e288c077aafe5

diff --git a/fs/exfat/namei.c b/fs/exfat/namei.c
index 97d2774760fe..73dbc5cdf388 100644
--- a/fs/exfat/namei.c
+++ b/fs/exfat/namei.c
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ static int exfat_find_empty_entry(struct inode *inode,
 	while ((dentry = exfat_search_empty_slot(sb, &hint_femp, p_dir,
 					num_entries, es)) < 0) {
 		if (dentry == -EIO)
-			break;
+			return -EIO;
 
 		if (exfat_check_max_dentries(inode))
 			return -ENOSPC;