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authorWei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>2016-06-17 17:34:17 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-06-25 14:41:18 -0700
commitb3e6916d6edfdf12505efbfb4a019e8a96f2c674 (patch)
tree4445b9e09fc52df074a2f8f7e44ee5425eb7e7e8
parent4562d224edbe62e5620abbf49ffa8ceae2b73762 (diff)
staging: wilc1000: fix return value check in wlan_initialize_threads()
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@trendmicro.com.cn> Reviewed-by: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
index 2ce9df5c6885..3a66255f14fc 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
@@ -715,10 +715,10 @@ 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);