From 054afee4736677a00982f6414a983dec8ee511db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Akinobu Mita Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:04:00 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] V4L/DVB (4995): Vivi: fix kthread_run() error check The return value of kthread_run() should be checked by IS_ERR(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- drivers/media/video/vivi.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/video/vivi.c b/drivers/media/video/vivi.c index 3cead24a36c1..bacb311b4f24 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/vivi.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/vivi.c @@ -535,9 +535,9 @@ static int vivi_start_thread(struct vivi_dmaqueue *dma_q) dma_q->kthread = kthread_run(vivi_thread, dma_q, "vivi"); - if (dma_q->kthread == NULL) { + if (IS_ERR(dma_q->kthread)) { printk(KERN_ERR "vivi: kernel_thread() failed\n"); - return -EINVAL; + return PTR_ERR(dma_q->kthread); } dprintk(1,"returning from %s\n",__FUNCTION__); return 0; -- 2.20.1