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| author |   Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> | 2005-11-18 01:10:54 -0800 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-11-18 07:49:45 -0800 |
| commit | 44f080c46e84090daf81b4d142359f8e38d7c5ee (patch) | |
| tree | 7f2cd28f932bba32c0c28a7c20983c9167f4667e | |
| parent | [PATCH] re-export clear_page_dirty_for_io() (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-44f080c46e84090daf81b4d142359f8e38d7c5ee.tar.xz linux-dev-44f080c46e84090daf81b4d142359f8e38d7c5ee.zip | |
[PATCH] ipmi: missing NULL test for kthread
On IPMI systems with BT interfaces, we don't start the kernel thread, so
smi_info->thread is NULL. Test for NULL when stopping the thread, because
kthread_stop() doesn't, and an oops ensues otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c index ea89dca3dbb5..01a1f6badb53 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c @@ -2203,7 +2203,7 @@ static void setup_xaction_handlers(struct smi_info *smi_info) static inline void wait_for_timer_and_thread(struct smi_info *smi_info) { - if (smi_info->thread != ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM)) + if (smi_info->thread != NULL && smi_info->thread != ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM)) kthread_stop(smi_info->thread); del_timer_sync(&smi_info->si_timer); } |