From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:21:05 +0000 Subject: [patch] dlm: create_workqueue() doesn't return ERR_PTR Message-Id: <20100803172105.GT26313@bicker> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org The code was checking for IS_ERR() but create_workqueue() and friends return NULL on error. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c b/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c index c0d35c6..24687c6 100644 --- a/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c +++ b/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c @@ -1430,20 +1430,17 @@ static void work_stop(void) static int work_start(void) { - int error; recv_workqueue = create_workqueue("dlm_recv"); - error = IS_ERR(recv_workqueue); - if (error) { - log_print("can't start dlm_recv %d", error); - return error; + if (!recv_workqueue) { + log_print("can't start dlm_recv"); + return -ENOMEM; } send_workqueue = create_singlethread_workqueue("dlm_send"); - error = IS_ERR(send_workqueue); - if (error) { - log_print("can't start dlm_send %d", error); + if (!send_workqueue) { + log_print("can't start dlm_send"); destroy_workqueue(recv_workqueue); - return error; + return -ENOMEM; } return 0;