Merge v7.1.5linux-rolling-stable

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.c b/samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.c
index ecc7db237f2e..0b7a6efdb247 100644
--- a/samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.c
+++ b/samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.c
@@ -107,6 +107,10 @@ int foo_bar_reg(void)
 	 * for consistency sake, we still take the thread_mutex.
 	 */
 	simple_tsk_fn = kthread_run(simple_thread_fn, NULL, "event-sample-fn");
+	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(simple_tsk_fn)) {
+		pr_err("Failed to create simple_thread_fn\n");
+		simple_tsk_fn = NULL;
+	}
  out:
 	mutex_unlock(&thread_mutex);
 	return 0;