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().
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
                if (fw_debug) {
                        dev->kthread = kthread_run(saa7164_thread_function, dev,
                                "saa7164 debug");
-                       if (!dev->kthread)
+                       if (IS_ERR(dev->kthread)) {
+                               dev->kthread = NULL;
                                printk(KERN_ERR "%s() Failed to create "
                                        "debug kernel thread\n", __func__);
+                       }
                }
 
        } /* != BOARD_UNKNOWN */