On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 6:53 PM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 6:06 PM, Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/uwb/uwbd.c | 5 +++--
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c b/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c
>> index 01c20a260a8b..2a3cc48d837c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c
>> +++ b/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c
>> @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ static int uwbd(void *param)
>> void uwbd_start(struct uwb_rc *rc)
>> {
>> rc->uwbd.task = kthread_run(uwbd, rc, "uwbd");
>> - if (rc->uwbd.task == NULL)
>> + if (IS_ERR(rc->uwbd.task))
>> printk(KERN_ERR "UWB: Cannot start management daemon; "
>> "UWB won't work\n");
>> else
>> @@ -313,7 +313,8 @@ void uwbd_start(struct uwb_rc *rc)
>> /* Stop the UWB daemon and free any unprocessed events */
>> void uwbd_stop(struct uwb_rc *rc)
>> {
>> - kthread_stop(rc->uwbd.task);
>> + if (!IS_ERR(rc->uwbd.task))
>> + kthread_stop(rc->uwbd.task);
>
> It looks weird to assign an error to rc->uwbd.task and leave it there.
> I think it's better to not assign errors to rc->uwbd.task, i.e. it's
> either a valid task or NULL.
Sent v3.
>
>> uwbd_flush(rc);
>> }
>>
>> --
>> 2.14.1.581.gf28d330327-goog
>>
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