diff --git a/fs/btrfs/compression.c b/fs/btrfs/compression.c
index d43c544d3b68..92371c414228 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/compression.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/compression.c
@@ -887,7 +887,7 @@ int btrfs_compress_pages(int type, struct address_space *mapping,
 
 	workspace = find_workspace(type);
 	if (IS_ERR(workspace))
-		return -1;
+		return PTR_ERR(workspace);
 
 	ret = btrfs_compress_op[type-1]->compress_pages(workspace, mapping,
 						      start, len, pages,
@@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ static int btrfs_decompress_biovec(int type, struct page **pages_in,
 
 	workspace = find_workspace(type);
 	if (IS_ERR(workspace))
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		return PTR_ERR(workspace);
 
 	ret = btrfs_compress_op[type-1]->decompress_biovec(workspace, pages_in,
 							 disk_start,
@@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ int btrfs_decompress(int type, unsigned char *data_in, struct page *dest_page,
 
 	workspace = find_workspace(type);
 	if (IS_ERR(workspace))
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		return PTR_ERR(workspace);
 
 	ret = btrfs_compress_op[type-1]->decompress(workspace, data_in,
 						  dest_page, start_byte,