From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Wei Yongjun , Hans Verkuil , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 3.8 013/166] [media] saa7164: fix return value check in saa7164_initdev() Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:50:27 -0800 Message-Id: <1389822780-4729-14-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> In-Reply-To: <1389822780-4729-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1389822780-4729-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.8.13.16 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Wei Yongjun commit 89f4d45b2752df5d222b5f63919ce59e2d8afaf4 upstream. In case of error, the function kthread_run() returns ERR_PTR() and never returns NULL. The NULL test in the return value check should be replaced with IS_ERR(). Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- drivers/media/pci/saa7164/saa7164-core.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/saa7164/saa7164-core.c b/drivers/media/pci/saa7164/saa7164-core.c index 63502e7..bb394e0 100644 --- a/drivers/media/pci/saa7164/saa7164-core.c +++ b/drivers/media/pci/saa7164/saa7164-core.c @@ -1348,9 +1348,11 @@ static int saa7164_initdev(struct pci_dev *pci_dev, if (fw_debug) { dev->kthread = kthread_run(saa7164_thread_function, dev, "saa7164 debug"); - if (!dev->kthread) + if (IS_ERR(dev->kthread)) { + dev->kthread = NULL; printk(KERN_ERR "%s() Failed to create " "debug kernel thread\n", __func__); + } } } /* != BOARD_UNKNOWN */ -- 1.8.3.2