From 17fb874dee093139923af8ed36061faa92cc8e79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Schwidefsky Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:13:30 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] hwrng: core - correct error check of kthread_run call The kthread_run() function can return two different error values but the hwrng core only checks for -ENOMEM. If the other error value -EINTR is returned it is assigned to hwrng_fill and later used on a kthread_stop() call which naturally crashes. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu --- drivers/char/hw_random/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c index da8faf7..5643b65 100644 --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c @@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ static int hwrng_fillfn(void *unused) static void start_khwrngd(void) { hwrng_fill = kthread_run(hwrng_fillfn, NULL, "hwrng"); - if (hwrng_fill == ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM)) { + if (IS_ERR(hwrng_fill)) { pr_err("hwrng_fill thread creation failed"); hwrng_fill = NULL; } -- 2.7.4