From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 09:46:38 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: lockref: improve the lockref_get_not_zero description
X-Git-Tag: v6.14-rc1~216^2^2~6
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d60f2280a1b5b9a4796f9a13f7fdff1d0b99f718;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git

lockref: improve the lockref_get_not_zero description

lockref_put_return returns exactly -1 and not "an error" when the lockref
is dead or locked.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250115094702.504610-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/lib/lockref.c b/lib/lockref.c
index a68192c979b32..b1b042a9a6c8e 100644
--- a/lib/lockref.c
+++ b/lib/lockref.c
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(lockref_get_not_zero);
  * @lockref: pointer to lockref structure
  *
  * Decrement the reference count and return the new value.
- * If the lockref was dead or locked, return an error.
+ * If the lockref was dead or locked, return -1.
  */
 int lockref_put_return(struct lockref *lockref)
 {