[PATCH v3] drivers/misc/sgi-gru: fix dereference of ERR_PTR

[Sudip Mukherjee]

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: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

v3: compact code for if logic
v2: on error retry after msleep(1).
v1: returned error.


 drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukservices.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukservices.c b/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukservices.c
index 490b79a..7812e34 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukservices.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grukservices.c
@@ -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;
-- 
1.9.1

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