From: Dan Carpenter Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:21:14 +0000 (+0300) Subject: x86_64/traps: Fix always true condition X-Git-Tag: v3.19-rc1~19^2~2 X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e10abb2f770eeb673d23c19980216b0fb62b4f50;p=linux.git x86_64/traps: Fix always true condition We should be checking IS_ERR() here. PTR_ERR() is always true. Fixes: fe3d197f8431 ('x86, mpx: On-demand kernel allocation of bounds tables') Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Dave Hansen Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141125172114.GA24535@mwanda Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c index 651d5d4f7558..f73fc4a22a4d 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/traps.c @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ dotraplinkage void do_bounds(struct pt_regs *regs, long error_code) break; /* Success, it was handled */ case 1: /* Bound violation. */ info = mpx_generate_siginfo(regs, xsave_buf); - if (PTR_ERR(info)) { + if (IS_ERR(info)) { /* * We failed to decode the MPX instruction. Act as if * the exception was not caused by MPX.