Commit 7b625361 authored by Steven Whitehouse's avatar Steven Whitehouse

[GFS2] Add a comment in ops_export.c

Ass a comment explaining the slightly odd construct used to
pass error values back.

Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
parent 2c1e52aa
...@@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ static struct dentry *gfs2_get_parent(struct dentry *child) ...@@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ static struct dentry *gfs2_get_parent(struct dentry *child)
if (!inode) if (!inode)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
/*
* In case of an error, @inode carries the error value, and we
* have to return that as a(n invalid) pointer to dentry.
*/
if (IS_ERR(inode)) if (IS_ERR(inode))
return ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(inode)); return ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(inode));
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