[patch] sched/numa: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR()

[Dan Carpenter]

If mpol_new() is called with MPOL_BIND then it can't return a NULL
pointer.  We should be checking IS_ERR() here.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/kernel/sched/numa.c b/kernel/sched/numa.c
index 1149993..36d27ac 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/numa.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/numa.c
@@ -1481,9 +1481,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(numa_mbind, unsigned long, addr, unsigned long, len,
 
 	mask = nodemask_of_node(ng->numa_entity.node);
 	mpol = mpol_new(MPOL_BIND, 0, &mask);
-	if (!mpol) {
+	if (IS_ERR(mpol)) {
 		ng_put(ng);
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		return PTR_ERR(mpol);
 	}
 	mpol->flags |= MPOL_MF_LAZY;
 	mpol->numa_group = ng;
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