From: Andrew Morton ERROR: need a space before the open brace '{' #150: FILE: fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c:995: + if (err){ total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 117 lines checked Your patch has style problems, please review. If any of these errors are false positives report them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS. Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches Cc: David Howells Cc: Jeff Dike Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c~iget-stop-hostfs-from-using-iget-and-read_inode-checkpatch-fixes fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c --- a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c~iget-stop-hostfs-from-using-iget-and-read_inode-checkpatch-fixes +++ a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c @@ -992,7 +992,7 @@ static int hostfs_fill_sb_common(struct goto out_put; err = hostfs_read_inode(root_inode); - if (err){ + if (err) { /* No iput in this case because the dput does that for us */ dput(sb->s_root); sb->s_root = NULL; _