[PATCH] staging: wilc1000: fix return value check in wlan_initialize_threads()

weiyj_lk at 163.com weiyj_lk at 163.com
Fri Jun 17 17:34:17 UTC 2016


From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei at trendmicro.com.cn>

In case of error, the function kthread_run() returns ERR_PTR()
and never returns NULL. The NULL test in the return value check
should be replaced with IS_ERR().

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei at trendmicro.com.cn>
---
 drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
index 4f93c11..b622510 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
@@ -717,10 +717,10 @@ static int wlan_initialize_threads(struct net_device *dev)
 
 	wilc->txq_thread = kthread_run(linux_wlan_txq_task, (void *)dev,
 				     "K_TXQ_TASK");
-	if (!wilc->txq_thread) {
+	if (IS_ERR(wilc->txq_thread)) {
 		netdev_err(dev, "couldn't create TXQ thread\n");
 		wilc->close = 0;
-		return -ENOBUFS;
+		return PTR_ERR(wilc->txq_thread);
 	}
 	wait_for_completion(&wilc->txq_thread_started);
 







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