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SubjectRe: [PATCH] uwb: properly check kthread_run return value
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> wrote:
> uwbd_start() calls kthread_run() and checks that the return value is
> not NULL. But the return value is not NULL in case kthread_run() fails,
> it takes the form of ERR_PTR(-EINTR).
>
> Use IS_ERR() instead.

This uncovers another issue, there's no check of rc->uwbd.task in
uwbd_stop(). Will mail v2.

>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
> ---
> drivers/uwb/uwbd.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c b/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c
> index 01c20a260a8b..9f615b303576 100644
> --- a/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c
> +++ b/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c
> @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ static int uwbd(void *param)
> void uwbd_start(struct uwb_rc *rc)
> {
> rc->uwbd.task = kthread_run(uwbd, rc, "uwbd");
> - if (rc->uwbd.task == NULL)
> + if (IS_ERR(rc->uwbd.task))
> printk(KERN_ERR "UWB: Cannot start management daemon; "
> "UWB won't work\n");
> else
> --
> 2.14.1.581.gf28d330327-goog
>

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