[PATCH v1 5/9] ntfs: preserve error code in ntfs_resident_attr_record_add()

From: Baolin Liu

Date: Fri Aug 21 2026 - 01:33:33 EST


From: Baolin Liu <liubaolin@xxxxxxxxxx>

ntfs_resident_attr_record_add() collapses every failure to -EIO at
its put_err_out label. This defeats the resident-to-non-resident
fallback in ntfs_attr_add(), which relies on seeing -ENOSPC to
convert the attribute when the MFT record has no room, and also
hides -EEXIST and -ENOMEM from callers.

Return the actual error code. Every path reaching the label has
err set to a negative errno.

Fixes: 495e90fa3348 ("ntfs: update attrib operations")
Signed-off-by: Baolin Liu <liubaolin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ntfs/attrib.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ntfs/attrib.c b/fs/ntfs/attrib.c
index 990c3937a551..3d0b305703d3 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/attrib.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/attrib.c
@@ -2500,7 +2500,7 @@ int ntfs_resident_attr_record_add(struct ntfs_inode *ni, __le32 type,
return offset;
put_err_out:
ntfs_attr_put_search_ctx(ctx);
- return -EIO;
+ return err;
}

/*
--
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