From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:09:34 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] fix copy_process() error check
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[PATCH] fix copy_process() error check

The return value of copy_process() should be checked by IS_ERR().

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 3da978eec791..8cdd3e72ba55 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1315,9 +1315,8 @@ struct task_struct * __devinit fork_idle(int cpu)
 	struct pt_regs regs;
 
 	task = copy_process(CLONE_VM, 0, idle_regs(&regs), 0, NULL, NULL, 0);
-	if (!task)
-		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-	init_idle(task, cpu);
+	if (!IS_ERR(task))
+		init_idle(task, cpu);
 
 	return task;
 }