From: Feng Yang pthread_create returns 0 on success and a positive error code on failure; it never returns a negative value. The current conditional branch can never be taken. Failures during thread creation are silently ignored, which will lead to invalid memory access when waiting on threads or dereferencing thread handles later. Fixes: 91b2c0afd00c ("selftests/bpf: Add parallelism to test_progs") Signed-off-by: Feng Yang --- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_progs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_progs.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_progs.c index 1d3caf996971..312743c4337f 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_progs.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_progs.c @@ -1741,7 +1741,7 @@ static void server_main(void) data[i].worker_id = i; data[i].sock_fd = env.worker_socks[i]; rc = pthread_create(&dispatcher_threads[i], NULL, dispatch_thread, &data[i]); - if (rc < 0) { + if (rc) { perror("Failed to launch dispatcher thread"); exit(EXIT_ERR_SETUP_INFRA); } -- 2.43.0