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| author | Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com> | 2017-01-12 13:55:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2017-02-15 09:02:27 -0500 |
| commit | 8f0994bb8cbde5452e58ce0cacdbf6cb58079d01 (patch) | |
| tree | 648f3881631818216a871711b9eb014551bccfb6 /kernel | |
| parent | eb583cd484f9a76c3716c0539bd06340943eeff9 (diff) | |
| download | linux-8f0994bb8cbde5452e58ce0cacdbf6cb58079d01.tar.gz linux-8f0994bb8cbde5452e58ce0cacdbf6cb58079d01.tar.xz | |
tracing: Fix return value check in trace_benchmark_reg()
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/20170112135502.28556-1-weiyj.lk@gmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 81dc9f0e ("tracing: Add tracepoint benchmark tracepoint")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c b/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c index e3b488825ae3..e49fbe901cfc 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c @@ -175,9 +175,9 @@ int trace_benchmark_reg(void) bm_event_thread = kthread_run(benchmark_event_kthread, NULL, "event_benchmark"); - if (!bm_event_thread) { + if (IS_ERR(bm_event_thread)) { pr_warning("trace benchmark failed to create kernel thread\n"); - return -ENOMEM; + return PTR_ERR(bm_event_thread); } return 0; |