From roel.kluin@gmail.com Sun Jan 25 14:35:50 2009 From: Roel Kluin Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:37:30 +0100 Subject: Staging: usbip: usbip_start_threads(): handle kernel_thread failure To: Greg KH Cc: lkml Message-ID: <494C222A.8050507@gmail.com> kernel_thread may fail, notice this. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/usbip/usbip_common.c | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/staging/usbip/usbip_common.c +++ b/drivers/staging/usbip/usbip_common.c @@ -406,8 +406,20 @@ void usbip_start_threads(struct usbip_de /* * threads are invoked per one device (per one connection). */ - kernel_thread(usbip_thread, (void *)&ud->tcp_rx, 0); - kernel_thread(usbip_thread, (void *)&ud->tcp_tx, 0); + int retval; + + retval = kernel_thread(usbip_thread, (void *)&ud->tcp_rx, 0); + if (retval < 0) { + printk(KERN_ERR "Creating tcp_rx thread for ud %p failed.\n", + ud); + return; + } + retval = kernel_thread(usbip_thread, (void *)&ud->tcp_tx, 0); + if (retval < 0) { + printk(KERN_ERR "Creating tcp_tx thread for ud %p failed.\n", + ud); + return; + } /* confirm threads are starting */ wait_for_completion(&ud->tcp_rx.thread_done);