linux-kernel - [S390] Check the return value of kthread

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Message-ID: <20070126164721.GC11609@skybase>
Date:	Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:47:21 +0100
From:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	akinobu.mita@...il.com
Subject: [S390] Check the return value of kthread_run().

From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>

[S390] Check the return value of kthread_run().

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>

---

 drivers/s390/s390mach.c |    6 +++++-
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -urpN linux-2.6/drivers/s390/s390mach.c linux-2.6-patched/drivers/s390/s390mach.c
--- linux-2.6/drivers/s390/s390mach.c	2007-01-26 17:27:47.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6-patched/drivers/s390/s390mach.c	2007-01-26 17:27:47.000000000 +0100
@@ -525,7 +525,11 @@ arch_initcall(machine_check_init);
 static int __init
 machine_check_crw_init (void)
 {
-	kthread_run(s390_collect_crw_info, &m_sem, "kmcheck");
+	struct task_struct *task;
+
+	task = kthread_run(s390_collect_crw_info, &m_sem, "kmcheck");
+	if (IS_ERR(task))
+		return PTR_ERR(task);
 	ctl_set_bit(14, 28);	/* enable channel report MCH */
 	return 0;
 }
-
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