The return value of copy_process() should be checked by IS_ERR(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
@@ -1315,9 +1315,8 @@ struct task_struct * __devinit fork_idle(int cpu)
struct pt_regs regs;
task = copy_process(CLONE_VM, 0, idle_regs(®s), 0, NULL, NULL, 0);
- if (!task)
- return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
- init_idle(task, cpu);
+ if (!IS_ERR(task))
+ init_idle(task, cpu);
return task;
}