Commit bbf26183 authored by Andrey Konovalov's avatar Andrey Konovalov Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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: default avatarAndrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 70e743e4
......@@ -302,17 +302,21 @@ 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)
{
if (rc->uwbd.task)
kthread_stop(rc->uwbd.task);
uwbd_flush(rc);
}
......
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