Revert "configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors."

This reverts commit 11c3b79218390a139f2d474ee1e983a672d5839a.  The code
will move to PTR_ERR().

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/configfs/dir.c b/fs/configfs/dir.c
index 0e64312a084c..614e382a6049 100644
--- a/fs/configfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/configfs/dir.c
@@ -1073,24 +1073,25 @@ static int configfs_mkdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, int mode)
         group = NULL;
         item = NULL;
         if (type->ct_group_ops->make_group) {
-                ret = type->ct_group_ops->make_group(to_config_group(parent_item), name, &group);
-                if (!ret) {
+                group = type->ct_group_ops->make_group(to_config_group(parent_item), name);
+                if (group) {
                         link_group(to_config_group(parent_item), group);
                         item = &group->cg_item;
                 }
         } else {
-                ret = type->ct_group_ops->make_item(to_config_group(parent_item), name, &item);
-                if (!ret)
+                item = type->ct_group_ops->make_item(to_config_group(parent_item), name);
+                if (item)
                         link_obj(parent_item, item);
         }
         mutex_unlock(&subsys->su_mutex);
 
         kfree(name);
-        if (ret) {
+        if (!item) {
                 /*
-                 * If ret != 0, then link_obj() was never called.
+                 * If item == NULL, then link_obj() was never called.
                  * There are no extra references to clean up.
                  */
+                ret = -ENOMEM;
                 goto out_put;
         }