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| author | Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> | 2016-06-17 17:33:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com> | 2017-05-17 15:08:20 -0400 |
| commit | 8da28861bfab88657c0d461591b73953b82b9655 (patch) | |
| tree | fae861a181e877baa3128b1f613bdb6dbca7330f /kernel | |
| parent | 4cc0a6f1461156e40ee8a8c3af956bfbc87693df (diff) | |
ring-buffer: Fix return value check in test_ringbuffer()
[ Upstream commit 62277de758b155dc04b78f195a1cb5208c37b2df ]
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().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466184839-14927-1-git-send-email-weiyj_lk@163.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 6c43e554a ("ring-buffer: Add ring buffer startup selftest")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index fb147c7811d2..4b001d345876 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -4878,9 +4878,9 @@ static __init int test_ringbuffer(void) rb_data[cpu].cnt = cpu; rb_threads[cpu] = kthread_create(rb_test, &rb_data[cpu], "rbtester/%d", cpu); - if (WARN_ON(!rb_threads[cpu])) { + if (WARN_ON(IS_ERR(rb_threads[cpu]))) { pr_cont("FAILED\n"); - ret = -1; + ret = PTR_ERR(rb_threads[cpu]); goto out_free; } @@ -4890,9 +4890,9 @@ static __init int test_ringbuffer(void) /* Now create the rb hammer! */ rb_hammer = kthread_run(rb_hammer_test, NULL, "rbhammer"); - if (WARN_ON(!rb_hammer)) { + if (WARN_ON(IS_ERR(rb_hammer))) { pr_cont("FAILED\n"); - ret = -1; + ret = PTR_ERR(rb_hammer); goto out_free; } |