The comment above the function says one of its return value is -EIO,
and also the caller of diAlloc() checks for -EIO:
struct inode *ialloc(struct inode *parent, umode_t mode)
{
	...
	rc = diAlloc(parent, S_ISDIR(mode), inode);
	if (rc) {
		jfs_warn("ialloc: diAlloc returned %d!", rc);
		if (rc == -EIO)
			make_bad_inode(inode);
	...
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
                                        jfs_error(ip->i_sb,
                                                  "diAlloc: can't find free bit "
                                                  "in wmap");
-                                       return EIO;
+                                       return -EIO;
                                }
 
                                /* determine the inode number within the