I spent a long time looking at this as well... It's really inscrutable code. It would be more readable if we just spelled things out in the most pedantic way possible:
diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c index 1fee702d5529..7e1586bd5cf3 100644 --- a/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c +++ b/fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c @@ -158,9 +158,13 @@ int cachefiles_ondemand_copen(struct cachefiles_cache *cache, char *args) /* fail OPEN request if daemon reports an error */ if (size < 0) { - if (!IS_ERR_VALUE(size)) - size = -EINVAL; - req->error = size; + if (!IS_ERR_VALUE(size)) { + req->error = -EINVAL; + ret = -EINVAL; + } else { + req->error = size; + ret = 0; + } goto out; } -- Linux-cachefs mailing list Linux-cachefs@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cachefs