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authorAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>2006-12-20 13:04:00 (GMT)
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>2006-12-27 16:20:12 (GMT)
commit054afee4736677a00982f6414a983dec8ee511db (patch)
treebe0b30ba5ffad65874091e5ca28fb685765094b3 /drivers/media/video
parent72f678c30185df18ac38ef14c9045d139c2263bc (diff)
downloadlinux-054afee4736677a00982f6414a983dec8ee511db.tar.xz
V4L/DVB (4995): Vivi: fix kthread_run() error check
The return value of kthread_run() should be checked by IS_ERR(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/media/video')
-rw-r--r--drivers/media/video/vivi.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/vivi.c b/drivers/media/video/vivi.c
index 3cead24..bacb311 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/vivi.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/vivi.c
@@ -535,9 +535,9 @@ static int vivi_start_thread(struct vivi_dmaqueue *dma_q)
dma_q->kthread = kthread_run(vivi_thread, dma_q, "vivi");
- if (dma_q->kthread == NULL) {
+ if (IS_ERR(dma_q->kthread)) {
printk(KERN_ERR "vivi: kernel_thread() failed\n");
- return -EINVAL;
+ return PTR_ERR(dma_q->kthread);
}
dprintk(1,"returning from %s\n",__FUNCTION__);
return 0;