[3.5.y.z extended stable] Patch "[media] saa7164: fix return value check in saa7164_initdev()" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    [media] saa7164: fix return value check in saa7164_initdev()

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From e6b93de4cb837dfa18fe5f9bfedf17a8b68d9808 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei at trendmicro.com.cn>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 06:34:03 -0300
Subject: [media] saa7164: fix return value check in saa7164_initdev()

commit 89f4d45b2752df5d222b5f63919ce59e2d8afaf4 upstream.

In case of error, the function kthread_run() returns ERR_PTR()
and never returns NULL. The NULL test in the return value check
should be replaced with IS_ERR().

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei at trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil at cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab at samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-core.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-core.c b/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-core.c
index 3b7d7b4..8f3c47e 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-core.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/saa7164/saa7164-core.c
@@ -1386,9 +1386,11 @@ static int __devinit saa7164_initdev(struct pci_dev *pci_dev,
 		if (fw_debug) {
 			dev->kthread = kthread_run(saa7164_thread_function, dev,
 				"saa7164 debug");
-			if (!dev->kthread)
+			if (IS_ERR(dev->kthread)) {
+				dev->kthread = NULL;
 				printk(KERN_ERR "%s() Failed to create "
 					"debug kernel thread\n", __func__);
+			}
 		}

 	} /* != BOARD_UNKNOWN */
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1.8.3.2