Small bugfix in ext2/namei.c

[Jan Kara]

  Hello.

  Following patch against 2.4.0-test7 fixes returning of errors from
ext2_new_inode(). Currenly if ext2_new_inode() failed EIO was returned
from functions like ext2_create() which is bad as it can fail also
with EDQUOT and such.

                                                        Honza


--- fs/ext2/namei.c     Fri Sep  1 12:23:51 2000
+++ fs/ext2/namei.c     Fri Sep  1 12:25:11 2000
@@ -367,11 +367,11 @@
        int err;
 
        /*
-        * N.B. Several error exits in ext2_new_inode don't set err.
+        * Errors like EDQUOT can happen...
         */
        inode = ext2_new_inode (dir, mode, &err);
        if (!inode)
-               return -EIO;
+               return err;
 
        inode->i_op = &ext2_file_inode_operations;
        inode->i_fop = &ext2_file_operations;
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@
 
        inode = ext2_new_inode (dir, mode, &err);
        if (!inode)
-               return -EIO;
+               return err;
 
        inode->i_uid = current->fsuid;
        init_special_inode(inode, mode, rdev);
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@
 
        inode = ext2_new_inode (dir, S_IFDIR, &err);
        if (!inode)
-               return -EIO;
+               return err;
 
        inode->i_op = &ext2_dir_inode_operations;
        inode->i_fop = &ext2_dir_operations;
@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@
                return -ENAMETOOLONG;
 
        if (!(inode = ext2_new_inode (dir, S_IFLNK, &err)))
-               return -EIO;
+               return err;
 
        inode->i_mode = S_IFLNK | S_IRWXUGO;