diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 37043d0..0b16fb4 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -3603,11 +3603,10 @@ static int ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized(handle_t *handle,
 		}
 	}
 
-	allocated = ext4_split_extent(handle, inode, ppath,
-				      &split_map, split_flag, flags);
-	if (allocated < 0)
-		err = allocated;
-
+	err = ext4_split_extent(handle, inode, ppath, &split_map, split_flag,
+				flags);
+	if (err > 0)
+		err = 0;
 out:
 	/* If we have gotten a failure, don't zero out status tree */
 	if (!err)