Commit-ID: 63f82f66a208efe0f5f10ed5d0cd8d32c8dfd013 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/63f82f66a208efe0f5f10ed5d0cd8d32c8dfd013 Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Tue, 22 May 2012 17:52:34 +0300 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Wed, 23 May 2012 17:11:31 +0200 sched/numa: Checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR() If mpol_new() is called with MPOL_BIND then it can't return a NULL pointer. We should be checking IS_ERR() here. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120522145233.GA17419@elgon.mountain Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sched/numa.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/numa.c b/kernel/sched/numa.c index de66256..25be2b1 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/numa.c +++ b/kernel/sched/numa.c @@ -1482,9 +1482,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(numa_mbind, unsigned long, addr, unsigned long, len, mask = nodemask_of_node(ng->numa_entity.node); mpol = mpol_new(MPOL_BIND, 0, &mask); - if (!mpol) { + if (IS_ERR(mpol)) { ng_put(ng); - return -ENOMEM; + return PTR_ERR(mpol); } mpol->flags |= MPOL_MF_LAZY; mpol->numa_group = ng; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html