From 753ca4f312a4b26940e4731b4fa5dbbbbcc77e97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 11:09:34 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [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>
---
 kernel/fork.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 3da978eec79..8cdd3e72ba5 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;
 }
-- 
2.20.1