linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH next] kthread: Fix a NULL vs IS

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Message-ID: <Z1xIAezMPKXAj9MC@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 15:43:13 +0100
From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@...el.com>,
	Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>,
	Mickaël Salaün <mic@...ikod.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH next] kthread: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() bug

Le Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 05:25:02PM +0300, Dan Carpenter a écrit :
> The kthread_create_worker_on_node() function returns error pointers,
> never NULL.  Fix the check to match.
> 
> Fixes: e9853c812f86 ("treewide: Introduce kthread_run_worker[_on_cpu]()")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
> ---
>  kernel/kthread.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
> index 83bf73d2355c..922f15762ec3 100644
> --- a/kernel/kthread.c
> +++ b/kernel/kthread.c
> @@ -1124,7 +1124,7 @@ kthread_create_worker_on_cpu(int cpu, unsigned int flags,
>  	struct kthread_worker *worker;
>  
>  	worker = kthread_create_worker_on_node(flags, cpu_to_node(cpu), namefmt, cpu);
> -	if (worker)
> +	if (!IS_ERR(worker))
>  		kthread_bind(worker->task, cpu);

Whoops!

Can I fold this to the offending patch? I can add your
Co-developed-by: / Signed-off-by: ?

Thanks.

>  
>  	return worker;
> -- 
> 2.45.2
>