Commit bba57f8f authored by Sudip Mukherjee's avatar Sudip Mukherjee Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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: default avatarSudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Acked-by: default avatarDimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent c2ed545c
......@@ -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;
......
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