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Wei Yongjun fixed a long standing bug in the ring buffer startup test.

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If for some unknown reason, the kthread that is created fails to be
 created, the return from kthread_create() is an PTR_ERR and not a NULL.
 The test incorrectly checks for NULL instead of an error.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.11-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "Wei Yongjun fixed a long standing bug in the ring buffer startup test.

  If for some unknown reason, the kthread that is created fails to be
  created, the return from kthread_create() is an PTR_ERR and not a
  NULL. The test incorrectly checks for NULL instead of an error"

* tag 'trace-v4.11-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  ring-buffer: Fix return value check in test_ringbuffer()
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Linus Torvalds 2017-04-06 13:12:12 -07:00
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@ -4826,9 +4826,9 @@ static __init int test_ringbuffer(void)
rb_data[cpu].cnt = cpu;
rb_threads[cpu] = kthread_create(rb_test, &rb_data[cpu],
"rbtester/%d", cpu);
if (WARN_ON(!rb_threads[cpu])) {
if (WARN_ON(IS_ERR(rb_threads[cpu]))) {
pr_cont("FAILED\n");
ret = -1;
ret = PTR_ERR(rb_threads[cpu]);
goto out_free;
}
@ -4838,9 +4838,9 @@ static __init int test_ringbuffer(void)
/* Now create the rb hammer! */
rb_hammer = kthread_run(rb_hammer_test, NULL, "rbhammer");
if (WARN_ON(!rb_hammer)) {
if (WARN_ON(IS_ERR(rb_hammer))) {
pr_cont("FAILED\n");
ret = -1;
ret = PTR_ERR(rb_hammer);
goto out_free;
}