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()
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 96fc3c0..54e7a90 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -4826,9 +4826,9 @@
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 @@
/* 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;
}
