On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:11:20PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > and there are about 5 other callsites as well that only check for a NULL > return.
... except that this is *not* getting NULL or make_bad_inode(); that's getting ERR_PTR(), which can't happen in mainline. So that looks like an -mm patch changing calling conventions and not updating callers...