From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] gpu: ion: dereferencing an ERR_PTR
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 14:20:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140122142003.GA9681@elgon.mountain> (raw)
We dereference "heap->task" before checking if it's an ERR_PTR.
Fixes: ea313b5f88ed ('gpu: ion: Also shrink memory cached in the deferred free list')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
---
Which email list are android patches going to these days? These didn't
go through the staging list.
diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_heap.c b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_heap.c
index 296c74f98dc0..37e64d51394c 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_heap.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_heap.c
@@ -243,12 +243,12 @@ int ion_heap_init_deferred_free(struct ion_heap *heap)
init_waitqueue_head(&heap->waitqueue);
heap->task = kthread_run(ion_heap_deferred_free, heap,
"%s", heap->name);
- sched_setscheduler(heap->task, SCHED_IDLE, ¶m);
if (IS_ERR(heap->task)) {
pr_err("%s: creating thread for deferred free failed\n",
__func__);
return PTR_RET(heap->task);
}
+ sched_setscheduler(heap->task, SCHED_IDLE, ¶m);
return 0;
}
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