From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Wei Yongjun" , "Hans Verkuil" , "Mauro Carvalho Chehab" Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 03:08:44 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: [PATCH 3.2 108/185] [media] saa7164: fix return value check in saa7164_initdev() In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.2.54-rc1 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 [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-core.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-core.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-core.c @@ -1386,9 +1386,11 @@ static int __devinit saa7164_initdev(str 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 */