[PATCH] fix copy_process() error check The return value of copy_process() should be checked by IS_ERR(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 3da978e..8cdd3e7 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1315,9 +1315,8 @@ struct pt_regs regs; task = copy_process(CLONE_VM, 0, idle_regs(®s), 0, NULL, NULL, 0); - if (!task) - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); - init_idle(task, cpu); + if (!IS_ERR(task)) + init_idle(task, cpu); return task; }