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

[Kamal Mostafa]

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-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.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-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.16.

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

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 0208f6d760c1aa8368ff74426dbc79bd8749b9cb 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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/media/pci/saa7164/saa7164-core.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/saa7164/saa7164-core.c b/drivers/media/pci/saa7164/saa7164-core.c
index 63502e7..bb394e0 100644
--- a/drivers/media/pci/saa7164/saa7164-core.c
+++ b/drivers/media/pci/saa7164/saa7164-core.c
@@ -1348,9 +1348,11 @@ static int 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