From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 21:51:23 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: uml: kernel_thread shouldn't panic
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.22-rc1~862
X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ccdddb57874522e6b267204f9c5e94ba7d9d66b0;p=~shefty%2Frdma-dev.git

uml: kernel_thread shouldn't panic

kernel_thread() should just return an error value on do_fork failure, not
panic.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/process.c b/arch/um/kernel/process.c
index 9ac9944aa2c..8d2c5496532 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/process.c
@@ -97,8 +97,6 @@ int kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void * arg, unsigned long flags)
 	current->thread.request.u.thread.arg = arg;
 	pid = do_fork(CLONE_VM | CLONE_UNTRACED | flags, 0,
 		      &current->thread.regs, 0, NULL, NULL);
-	if(pid < 0)
-		panic("do_fork failed in kernel_thread, errno = %d", pid);
 	return pid;
 }