From: Marek Belisko <marek.belisko@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:29:35 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: staging: ft1000: Check return value of kthread_run.
X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c8b124e21dbb7f4941f292fea446ce63d92d80dd;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git

staging: ft1000: Check return value of kthread_run.

kthread_run could fail so we will check return value.

Signed-off-by: Marek Belisko <marek.belisko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c b/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c
index 41bbe991f0de..dcbc97c432e5 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c
@@ -175,6 +175,12 @@ static int ft1000_probe(struct usb_interface *interface,
 	gPollingfailed = FALSE;
 	pft1000info->pPollThread =
 	    kthread_run(ft1000_poll_thread, ft1000dev, "ft1000_poll");
+
+	if (IS_ERR(pft1000info->pPollThread)) {
+		ret = PTR_ERR(pft1000info->pPollThread);
+		goto err_load;
+	}
+
 	msleep(500);
 
 	while (!pft1000info->CardReady) {