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drivers/misc/sgi-gru: fix dereference of ERR_PTR
authorSudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Fri, 4 Sep 2015 04:26:20 +0000 (09:56 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 21 Sep 2015 02:27:59 +0000 (19:27 -0700)
commitbba57f8f948239340e939cb25c7d858cd60ad9de
tree0b0989b780c2b73786694f7f06eaf49c4782b067tree | snapshot
parentc2ed545cee2412a47a5931340ba408b8abcee22ccommit | diff
drivers/misc/sgi-gru: fix dereference of ERR_PTR

gru_alloc_gts() can fail and it can return ERR_PTR(errvalue). We should
not dereference it if it has returned error. And incase it has returned
error then wait for some time and try again.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Acked-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukservices.c diff | blob | history
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