propagate error from get_empty_filp() to its callers

Based on parts from Anatol's patch (the rest is the next commit).

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

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index df00b754631d..e0a33f598cdf 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2941,8 +2941,8 @@ static struct file *path_openat(int dfd, struct filename *pathname,
         int error;
 
         file = get_empty_filp();
-        if (!file)
-                return ERR_PTR(-ENFILE);
+        if (IS_ERR(file))
+                return file;
 
         file->f_flags = op->open_flag;