From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

kernel_thread() should just return an error value on do_fork failure, not
panic.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 arch/um/kernel/process.c |    2 --
 1 files changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN arch/um/kernel/process.c~uml-kernel_thread-shouldnt-panic arch/um/kernel/process.c
--- a/arch/um/kernel/process.c~uml-kernel_thread-shouldnt-panic
+++ a/arch/um/kernel/process.c
@@ -97,8 +97,6 @@ int kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), voi
 	current->thread.request.u.thread.arg = arg;
 	pid = do_fork(CLONE_VM | CLONE_UNTRACED | flags, 0,
 		      &current->thread.regs, 0, NULL, NULL);
-	if(pid < 0)
-		panic("do_fork failed in kernel_thread, errno = %d", pid);
 	return pid;
 }
 
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