From 753ca4f312a4b26940e4731b4fa5dbbbbcc77e97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 11:09:34 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] fix copy_process() error check The return value of copy_process() should be checked by IS_ERR(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> --- kernel/fork.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 3da978eec791..8cdd3e72ba55 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1315,9 +1315,8 @@ struct task_struct * __devinit fork_idle(int cpu) struct pt_regs regs; task = copy_process(CLONE_VM, 0, idle_regs(®s), 0, NULL, NULL, 0); - if (!task) - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); - init_idle(task, cpu); + if (!IS_ERR(task)) + init_idle(task, cpu); return task; }