diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
index 93addde..20a07db 100644
--- a/mm/mremap.c
+++ b/mm/mremap.c
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@
 	unsigned long excess = 0;
 	unsigned long hiwater_vm;
 	int split = 0;
+	int err;
 
 	/*
 	 * We'd prefer to avoid failure later on in do_munmap:
@@ -190,9 +191,10 @@
 	 * pages recently unmapped.  But leave vma->vm_flags as it was,
 	 * so KSM can come around to merge on vma and new_vma afterwards.
 	 */
-	if (ksm_madvise(vma, old_addr, old_addr + old_len,
-						MADV_UNMERGEABLE, &vm_flags))
-		return -ENOMEM;
+	err = ksm_madvise(vma, old_addr, old_addr + old_len,
+						MADV_UNMERGEABLE, &vm_flags);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
 
 	new_pgoff = vma->vm_pgoff + ((old_addr - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 	new_vma = copy_vma(&vma, new_addr, new_len, new_pgoff);