1 files changed, 11 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/fs/romfs/inode.c b/fs/romfs/inode.c
index 00b6f0a518c8..3f13d491c7c7 100644
--- a/fs/romfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/romfs/inode.c
@@ -340,8 +340,9 @@ static struct dentry *
 romfs_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
 {
         unsigned long offset, maxoff;
-        int fslen, res;
-        struct inode *inode;
+        long res;
+        int fslen;
+        struct inode *inode = NULL;
         char fsname[ROMFS_MAXFN];       /* XXX dynamic? */
         struct romfs_inode ri;
         const char *name;               /* got from dentry */
@@ -351,7 +352,7 @@ romfs_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
         offset = dir->i_ino & ROMFH_MASK;
         lock_kernel();
         if (romfs_copyfrom(dir, &ri, offset, ROMFH_SIZE) <= 0)
-                goto out;
+                goto error;
 
         maxoff = romfs_maxsize(dir->i_sb);
         offset = be32_to_cpu(ri.spec) & ROMFH_MASK;
@@ -364,9 +365,9 @@ romfs_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
 
         for(;;) {
                 if (!offset || offset >= maxoff)
-                        goto out0;
+                        goto success; /* negative success */
                 if (romfs_copyfrom(dir, &ri, offset, ROMFH_SIZE) <= 0)
-                        goto out;
+                        goto error;
 
                 /* try to match the first 16 bytes of name */
                 fslen = romfs_strnlen(dir, offset+ROMFH_SIZE, ROMFH_SIZE);
@@ -397,23 +398,14 @@ romfs_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
         inode = romfs_iget(dir->i_sb, offset);
         if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
                 res = PTR_ERR(inode);
-                goto out;
+                goto error;
         }
 
-        /*
-         * it's a bit funky, _lookup needs to return an error code
-         * (negative) or a NULL, both as a dentry.  ENOENT should not
-         * be returned, instead we need to create a negative dentry by
-         * d_add(dentry, NULL); and return 0 as no error.
-         * (Although as I see, it only matters on writable file
-         * systems).
-         */
-
-out0:   inode = NULL;
+success:
+        d_add(dentry, inode);
         res = 0;
-        d_add (dentry, inode);
-
-out:    unlock_kernel();
+error:
+        unlock_kernel();
         return ERR_PTR(res);
 }