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authorJulia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>2012-02-02 07:52:54 -0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-02-21 09:06:10 -0800
commit3c1b1ce00d2702d6be9b92233822e560f37ea780 (patch)
tree302e888faea366f7caccd6ad946bdde6d8e9137e
parentbde23c6892878e48f64de668660778991bc2fb56 (diff)
PTR_ERR should be called before its argument is cleared.
The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression e,e1; constant c; @@ *e = c ... when != e = e1 when != &e when != true IS_ERR(e) *PTR_ERR(e) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Reported-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcutorture.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcutorture.c
index ed1c72bd9c09..a89b381a8c6e 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutorture.c
@@ -1465,12 +1465,15 @@ rcu_torture_onoff(void *arg)
static int __cpuinit
rcu_torture_onoff_init(void)
{
+ int ret;
+
if (onoff_interval <= 0)
return 0;
onoff_task = kthread_run(rcu_torture_onoff, NULL, "rcu_torture_onoff");
if (IS_ERR(onoff_task)) {
+ ret = PTR_ERR(onoff_task);
onoff_task = NULL;
- return PTR_ERR(onoff_task);
+ return ret;
}
return 0;
}