From patchwork Tue Dec 17 13:31:07 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Luis Henriques X-Patchwork-Id: 302151 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33AC52C00AB for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:31:58 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Vsukc-0000z8-F2; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:31:54 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Vsujw-0000fg-C6 for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:31:12 +0000 Received: from [188.250.212.249] (helo=localhost) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vsujt-0006T5-Er; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:31:09 +0000 From: Luis Henriques To: Wei Yongjun Subject: [3.5.y.z extended stable] Patch "[media] saa7164: fix return value check in saa7164_initdev()" has been added to staging queue Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:31:07 +0000 Message-Id: <1387287067-27561-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.2 X-Extended-Stable: 3.5 Cc: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, Hans Verkuil , Mauro Carvalho Chehab X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled [media] saa7164: fix return value check in saa7164_initdev() to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ------ From e6b93de4cb837dfa18fe5f9bfedf17a8b68d9808 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wei Yongjun Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 06:34:03 -0300 Subject: [media] saa7164: fix return value check in saa7164_initdev() commit 89f4d45b2752df5d222b5f63919ce59e2d8afaf4 upstream. In case of error, the function kthread_run() returns ERR_PTR() and never returns NULL. The NULL test in the return value check should be replaced with IS_ERR(). Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques --- drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-core.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 1.8.3.2 diff --git a/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-core.c b/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-core.c index 3b7d7b4..8f3c47e 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-core.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-core.c @@ -1386,9 +1386,11 @@ static int __devinit saa7164_initdev(struct pci_dev *pci_dev, if (fw_debug) { dev->kthread = kthread_run(saa7164_thread_function, dev, "saa7164 debug"); - if (!dev->kthread) + if (IS_ERR(dev->kthread)) { + dev->kthread = NULL; printk(KERN_ERR "%s() Failed to create " "debug kernel thread\n", __func__); + } } } /* != BOARD_UNKNOWN */