diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/debug.c b/drivers/md/bcache/debug.c
index 8b123be05254..336f43910383 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/debug.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/debug.c
@@ -178,10 +178,9 @@ static ssize_t bch_dump_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
 	while (size) {
 		struct keybuf_key *w;
 		unsigned int bytes = min(i->bytes, size);
-		int err = copy_to_user(buf, i->buf, bytes);
 
-		if (err)
-			return err;
+		if (copy_to_user(buf, i->buf, bytes))
+			return -EFAULT;
 
 		ret	 += bytes;
 		buf	 += bytes;