From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Wei Yongjun , Hans Verkuil , Mauro Carvalho Chehab Subject: [PATCH 3.10 50/78] media: saa7164: fix return value check in saa7164_initdev() Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:11:18 -0800 Message-Id: <20131218211113.311900150@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20131218211111.903835960@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20131218211111.903835960@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.10-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: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/media/pci/saa7164/saa7164-core.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- 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_de 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 */