From 52fe28832acd3a5174e94a3439af8d3b51968b37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vladimir Zapolskiy Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 01:22:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] dm log writes: fix check of kthread_run() return value commit 91e630d9ae6de6f740ef7c8176736eb55366833e upstream. The kthread_run() function returns either a valid task_struct or ERR_PTR() value, check for NULL is invalid. This change fixes potential for oops, e.g. in OOM situation. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/md/dm-log-writes.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-log-writes.c b/drivers/md/dm-log-writes.c index 624589d51c2c..c2f29729dab1 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-log-writes.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-log-writes.c @@ -456,9 +456,9 @@ static int log_writes_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv) goto bad; } - ret = -EINVAL; lc->log_kthread = kthread_run(log_writes_kthread, lc, "log-write"); - if (!lc->log_kthread) { + if (IS_ERR(lc->log_kthread)) { + ret = PTR_ERR(lc->log_kthread); ti->error = "Couldn't alloc kthread"; dm_put_device(ti, lc->dev); dm_put_device(ti, lc->logdev); -- 2.34.1