[PATCH] fix copy_process() error check
authorAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Sat, 25 Nov 2006 19:09:34 +0000 (11:09 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>
Sat, 25 Nov 2006 21:28:34 +0000 (13:28 -0800)
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

index 3da978e..8cdd3e7 100644 (file)
@@ -1315,9 +1315,8 @@ struct task_struct * __devinit fork_idle(int cpu)
        struct pt_regs regs;
 
        task = copy_process(CLONE_VM, 0, idle_regs(&regs), 0, NULL, NULL, 0);
-       if (!task)
-               return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-       init_idle(task, cpu);
+       if (!IS_ERR(task))
+               init_idle(task, cpu);
 
        return task;
 }