diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index e0a6c4c6e286..96fc8a14a7e6 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 240634e9b3a8ae2a9e2b7effeea3b9a5b30d68fb
+refs/heads/master: b8d0638a98aa4a42ff322234b882487cd74e5c52
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/block/rbd.c b/trunk/drivers/block/rbd.c
index 1ac87f182057..52f9420704c7 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/block/rbd.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/block/rbd.c
@@ -826,8 +826,8 @@ static int rbd_req_sync_op(struct rbd_device *dev,
 
 	num_pages = calc_pages_for(ofs , len);
 	pages = ceph_alloc_page_vector(num_pages, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!pages)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+	if (IS_ERR(pages))
+		return PTR_ERR(pages);
 
 	if (!orig_ops) {
 		payload_len = (flags & CEPH_OSD_FLAG_WRITE ? len : 0);