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| author | Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> | 2017-09-14 14:30:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-09-18 11:28:23 +0200 |
| commit | bbf26183b7a6236ba602f4d6a2f7cade35bba043 (patch) | |
| tree | 7dc0c8b71b9984c3237dcd7b285f5c1fd7b8668b /drivers/uwb | |
| parent | 70e743e4cec3733dc13559f6184b35d358b9ef3f (diff) | |
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uwb: properly check kthread_run return value
uwbd_start() calls kthread_run() and checks that the return value is
not NULL. But the return value is not NULL in case kthread_run() fails,
it takes the form of ERR_PTR(-EINTR).
Use IS_ERR() instead.
Also add a check to uwbd_stop().
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/uwb')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/uwb/uwbd.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c b/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c index 01c20a260a8b..39dd4ef53c77 100644 --- a/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c +++ b/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c @@ -302,18 +302,22 @@ static int uwbd(void *param) /** Start the UWB daemon */ void uwbd_start(struct uwb_rc *rc) { - rc->uwbd.task = kthread_run(uwbd, rc, "uwbd"); - if (rc->uwbd.task == NULL) + struct task_struct *task = kthread_run(uwbd, rc, "uwbd"); + if (IS_ERR(task)) { + rc->uwbd.task = NULL; printk(KERN_ERR "UWB: Cannot start management daemon; " "UWB won't work\n"); - else + } else { + rc->uwbd.task = task; rc->uwbd.pid = rc->uwbd.task->pid; + } } /* Stop the UWB daemon and free any unprocessed events */ void uwbd_stop(struct uwb_rc *rc) { - kthread_stop(rc->uwbd.task); + if (rc->uwbd.task) + kthread_stop(rc->uwbd.task); uwbd_flush(rc); } |