[PATCH] ipmi: missing NULL test for kthread

On IPMI systems with BT interfaces, we don't start the kernel thread, so
smi_info->thread is NULL.  Test for NULL when stopping the thread, because
kthread_stop() doesn't, and an oops ensues otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
index ea89dca3dbb5..01a1f6badb53 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
@@ -2203,7 +2203,7 @@ static void setup_xaction_handlers(struct smi_info *smi_info)
 
 static inline void wait_for_timer_and_thread(struct smi_info *smi_info)
 {
-        if (smi_info->thread != ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM))
+        if (smi_info->thread != NULL && smi_info->thread != ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM))
                 kthread_stop(smi_info->thread);
         del_timer_sync(&smi_info->si_timer);
 }