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| author | Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> | 2015-09-04 09:56:20 +0530 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2015-09-20 19:27:59 -0700 |
| commit | bba57f8f948239340e939cb25c7d858cd60ad9de (patch) | |
| tree | 0b0989b780c2b73786694f7f06eaf49c4782b067 | |
| parent | c2ed545cee2412a47a5931340ba408b8abcee22c (diff) | |
drivers/misc/sgi-gru: fix dereference of ERR_PTR
gru_alloc_gts() can fail and it can return ERR_PTR(errvalue). We should
not dereference it if it has returned error. And incase it has returned
error then wait for some time and try again.
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Acked-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukservices.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukservices.c b/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukservices.c index 490b79a27c88..7812e34a1112 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukservices.c +++ b/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukservices.c @@ -160,7 +160,12 @@ static void gru_load_kernel_context(struct gru_blade_state *bs, int blade_id) down_write(&bs->bs_kgts_sema); if (!bs->bs_kgts) { - bs->bs_kgts = gru_alloc_gts(NULL, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0); + do { + bs->bs_kgts = gru_alloc_gts(NULL, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0); + if (!IS_ERR(bs->bs_kgts)) + break; + msleep(1); + } while (true); bs->bs_kgts->ts_user_blade_id = blade_id; } kgts = bs->bs_kgts; |