linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: Fix return-value types in several function documentation comments

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Date:   Sun, 29 Mar 2020 13:21:41 -0700
From:   Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: Fix return-value types in several function
 documentation comments

The documentation comments for ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait and
ext4_read_inode_bitmap describe them as returning NULL on error, but
they return an ERR_PTR on error; update the documentation to match.

The documentation comment for ext4_wait_block_bitmap describes it as
returning 1 on error, but it returns -errno on error; update the
documentation to match.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
---
 fs/ext4/balloc.c | 4 ++--
 fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/balloc.c b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
index 8fd0b3cdab4c..9a296008cf90 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ static int ext4_validate_block_bitmap(struct super_block *sb,
  * Read the bitmap for a given block_group,and validate the
  * bits for block/inode/inode tables are set in the bitmaps
  *
- * Return buffer_head on success or NULL in case of failure.
+ * Return buffer_head on success or an ERR_PTR in case of failure.
  */
 struct buffer_head *
 ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t block_group)
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t block_group)
 	return ERR_PTR(err);
 }
 
-/* Returns 0 on success, 1 on error */
+/* Returns 0 on success, -errno on error */
 int ext4_wait_block_bitmap(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t block_group,
 			   struct buffer_head *bh)
 {
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
index f95ee99091e4..86a96dca9ebf 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ static int ext4_validate_inode_bitmap(struct super_block *sb,
  * Read the inode allocation bitmap for a given block_group, reading
  * into the specified slot in the superblock's bitmap cache.
  *
- * Return buffer_head of bitmap on success or NULL.
+ * Return buffer_head of bitmap on success, or an ERR_PTR on error.
  */
 static struct buffer_head *
 ext4_read_inode_bitmap(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t block_group)
-- 
2.26.0