Check the return value of fork_idle() to catch error. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
@@ -353,6 +353,8 @@ static int __devinit smp_boot_one_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
int timeout, ret;
p = fork_idle(cpu);
+ if (IS_ERR(p))
+ return PTR_ERR(p);
callin_flag = 0;
cpu_new_thread = task_thread_info(p);