--- /dev/null
+From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
+Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:23:51 +0200
+Subject: ocfs2: Fix check of return value of ocfs2_start_trans()
+
+On failure, ocfs2_start_trans() returns values like ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM).
+Thus checks for !handle are wrong. Fix them to use IS_ERR().
+
+Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
+Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
+Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
+---
+ fs/ocfs2/file.c | 20 ++++++++++----------
+ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
+
+Index: linux-2.6.27-ocfs2/fs/ocfs2/file.c
+===================================================================
+--- linux-2.6.27-ocfs2.orig/fs/ocfs2/file.c
++++ linux-2.6.27-ocfs2/fs/ocfs2/file.c
+@@ -247,8 +247,8 @@ int ocfs2_update_inode_atime(struct inod
+ mlog_entry_void();
+
+ handle = ocfs2_start_trans(osb, OCFS2_INODE_UPDATE_CREDITS);
+- if (handle == NULL) {
+- ret = -ENOMEM;
++ if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
++ ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
+ mlog_errno(ret);
+ goto out;
+ }
+@@ -312,8 +312,8 @@ static int ocfs2_simple_size_update(stru
+ handle_t *handle = NULL;
+
+ handle = ocfs2_start_trans(osb, OCFS2_INODE_UPDATE_CREDITS);
+- if (handle == NULL) {
+- ret = -ENOMEM;
++ if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
++ ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
+ mlog_errno(ret);
+ goto out;
+ }
+@@ -1055,8 +1055,8 @@ static int __ocfs2_write_remove_suid(str
+ (unsigned long long)OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_blkno, inode->i_mode);
+
+ handle = ocfs2_start_trans(osb, OCFS2_INODE_UPDATE_CREDITS);
+- if (handle == NULL) {
+- ret = -ENOMEM;
++ if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
++ ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
+ mlog_errno(ret);
+ goto out;
+ }
+@@ -1259,8 +1259,8 @@ static int __ocfs2_remove_inode_range(st
+ }
+
+ handle = ocfs2_start_trans(osb, OCFS2_REMOVE_EXTENT_CREDITS);
+- if (handle == NULL) {
+- ret = -ENOMEM;
++ if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
++ ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
+ mlog_errno(ret);
+ goto out;
+ }
+@@ -1352,8 +1352,8 @@ static int ocfs2_zero_partial_clusters(s
+ goto out;
+
+ handle = ocfs2_start_trans(osb, OCFS2_INODE_UPDATE_CREDITS);
+- if (handle == NULL) {
+- ret = -ENOMEM;
++ if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
++ ret = PTR_ERR(handle);
+ mlog_errno(ret);
+ goto out;
+ }