The patch titled
ehca: fix kthread_create() error check
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
ehca-fix-kthread_create-error-check.patch
This patch was dropped because it is obsolete
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Subject: ehca: fix kthread_create() error check
From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx>
The return value of kthread_create() should be checked by IS_ERR().
create_comp_task() returns the return value from kthread_create().
Acked-by: Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Raisch <raisch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.c~ehca-fix-kthread_create-error-check drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.c
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.c~ehca-fix-kthread_create-error-check
+++ a/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.c
@@ -670,11 +670,13 @@ static int comp_pool_callback(struct not
{
unsigned int cpu = (unsigned long)hcpu;
struct ehca_cpu_comp_task *cct;
+ struct task_struct *task;
switch (action) {
case CPU_UP_PREPARE:
ehca_gen_dbg("CPU: %x (CPU_PREPARE)", cpu);
- if(!create_comp_task(pool, cpu)) {
+ task = create_comp_task(pool, cpu);
+ if (IS_ERR(task)) {
ehca_gen_err("Can't create comp_task for cpu: %x", cpu);
return NOTIFY_BAD;
}
@@ -730,7 +732,7 @@ int ehca_create_comp_pool(void)
for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
task = create_comp_task(pool, cpu);
- if (task) {
+ if (!IS_ERR(task)) {
kthread_bind(task, cpu);
wake_up_process(task);
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx are
module-fix-mod_sysfs_setup-return-value.patch
powerpc-use-is_init.patch
git-dvb.patch
ehca-fix-kthread_create-error-check.patch
ehca-fix-do_mmap-error-check.patch
ehca-avoid-crash-on-kthread_create-failure.patch
return-error-on-create_comp_task-failure.patch
ehca-fix-memleak-on-module-unloading.patch
git-input.patch
git-mtd.patch
net-use-bitrev8.patch
auth_gss-unregister-gss_domain-when-unloading-module.patch
iscsi-fix-crypto_alloc_hash-error-check.patch
git-watchdog.patch
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