create_irq() returns -1 if the interrupt allocation failed, but the code checks for irq == 0. Use create_irq_nr() instead. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi LKML-Reference: Cc: stable@kernel.org --- arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6-tip/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-tip.orig/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c +++ linux-2.6-tip/arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c @@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ static int hpet_assign_irq(struct hpet_d { unsigned int irq; - irq = create_irq(); + irq = create_irq_nr(0, -1); if (!irq) return -EINVAL;