From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@de.ibm.com>,
Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ehca: fix kthread_create() error check
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:42:48 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061219084248.GF4049@APFDCB5C> (raw)
The return value of kthread_create() should be checked by
IS_ERR(). create_comp_task() returns the return value from
kthread_create().
Cc: Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Index: 2.6-mm/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6-mm.orig/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.c
+++ 2.6-mm/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.c
@@ -670,11 +670,13 @@ static int comp_pool_callback(struct not
{
unsigned int cpu = (unsigned long)hcpu;
struct ehca_cpu_comp_task *cct;
+ struct task_struct *task;
switch (action) {
case CPU_UP_PREPARE:
ehca_gen_dbg("CPU: %x (CPU_PREPARE)", cpu);
- if(!create_comp_task(pool, cpu)) {
+ task = create_comp_task(pool, cpu);
+ if (IS_ERR(task)) {
ehca_gen_err("Can't create comp_task for cpu: %x", cpu);
return NOTIFY_BAD;
}
@@ -730,7 +732,7 @@ int ehca_create_comp_pool(void)
for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
task = create_comp_task(pool, cpu);
- if (task) {
+ if (!IS_ERR(task)) {
kthread_bind(task, cpu);
wake_up_process(task);
}
next reply other threads:[~2006-12-19 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-19 8:42 Akinobu Mita [this message]
2006-12-19 9:32 ` [PATCH] ehca: fix kthread_create() error check Hoang-Nam Nguyen
2006-12-21 21:22 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-12-25 8:12 ` [PATCH -mm] ehca: avoid crash on kthread_create() failure Akinobu Mita
2006-12-25 8:30 ` Akinobu Mita
2006-12-25 8:55 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-12-25 9:35 ` Akinobu Mita
2006-12-25 9:41 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-12-25 9:58 ` Akinobu Mita
2006-12-25 8:13 ` [PATCH -mm] return error on create_comp_task() failure Akinobu Mita
2006-12-25 8:14 ` [PATCH -mm] ehca: fix memleak on module unloading Akinobu Mita
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