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.
ring-buffer: Fix return value check in test_ringbuffer()
In case of error, the function kthread_run() returns ERR_PTR()
and never returns NULL. The NULL test in the return value check
should be replaced with IS_ERR().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466184839-14927-1-git-send-email-weiyj_lk@163.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 6c43e554a ("ring-buffer: Add ring buffer startup selftest")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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