kthread_create() returns an ERR_PTR on error, it never returns NULL. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/uislib/uisthread.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/uislib/uisthread.c index ecf4bfcb34a6..782b06aad56d 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/unisys/uislib/uisthread.c +++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/uislib/uisthread.c @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ uisthread_start(struct uisthread_info *thrinfo, /* used to stop the thread */ init_completion(&thrinfo->has_stopped); thrinfo->task = kthread_create(threadfn, thrcontext, name, NULL); - if (thrinfo->task == NULL) { + if (IS_ERR(thrinfo->task)) { thrinfo->id = 0; return 0; /* failure */ } _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel