make d_splice_alias(ERR_PTR(err), dentry) = ERR_PTR(err)

... and simplify the living hell out of callers

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jfs/namei.c b/fs/jfs/namei.c
index 1da0dc799286..247331551992 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/namei.c
@@ -1481,10 +1481,8 @@ static struct dentry *jfs_lookup(struct inode *dip, struct dentry *dentry, struc
         }
 
         ip = jfs_iget(dip->i_sb, inum);
-        if (IS_ERR(ip)) {
+        if (IS_ERR(ip))
                 jfs_err("jfs_lookup: iget failed on inum %d", (uint) inum);
-                return ERR_CAST(ip);
-        }
 
         return d_splice_alias(ip, dentry);
 }