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authorDan Carpenter2014-03-07 12:18:17 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman2014-03-09 07:42:14 +0100
commita16a027651359429b7a534edf8b82aac8f6482d5 (patch)
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parentstaging: cxt1e1: change declaration of TWV_table (diff)
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staging: unisys/uislib: kthread_create() returns an ERR_PTR
kthread_create() returns an ERR_PTR on error, it never returns NULL. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/unisys')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/unisys/uislib/uisthread.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/uislib/uisthread.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/uislib/uisthread.c
index ecf4bfcb34a6..782b06aad56d 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/unisys/uislib/uisthread.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/uislib/uisthread.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ uisthread_start(struct uisthread_info *thrinfo,
/* used to stop the thread */
init_completion(&thrinfo->has_stopped);
thrinfo->task = kthread_create(threadfn, thrcontext, name, NULL);
- if (thrinfo->task == NULL) {
+ if (IS_ERR(thrinfo->task)) {
thrinfo->id = 0;
return 0; /* failure */
}