From a16a027651359429b7a534edf8b82aac8f6482d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 14:18:17 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/unisys/uislib/uisthread.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 */ } -- 2.20.1