From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 11:18:17 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: staging: unisys/uislib: kthread_create() returns an ERR_PTR
X-Git-Tag: MMI-PSA29.97-13-9~12500^2~475
X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a16a027651359429b7a534edf8b82aac8f6482d5;p=GitHub%2FMotorolaMobilityLLC%2Fkernel-slsi.git

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>
---

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 */
 	}