[dpdk-stable] patch 'net/ark: fix return code not checked' has been queued to stable release 17.05.1

[Yuanhan Liu]

Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 17.05.1

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 06/22/17. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

	--yliu

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>From c391e55312ef587a2e15139170a4b0d7e3badf7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Miller <john.miller at atomicrules.com>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 12:14:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] net/ark: fix return code not checked

[ upstream commit d1434c047949ba52a11d64ca4d8304c9e261dd45 ]

Coverity issue: 144514
Fixes: 727b3fe292bc ("net/ark: integrate PMD")

Signed-off-by: John Miller <john.miller at atomicrules.com>
---
 drivers/net/ark/ark_ethdev.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ark/ark_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/ark/ark_ethdev.c
index 995c93d..9143fc4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ark/ark_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ark/ark_ethdev.c
@@ -588,7 +588,11 @@ eth_ark_dev_start(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
 		/* Delay packet generatpr start allow the hardware to be ready
 		 * This is only used for sanity checking with internal generator
 		 */
-		pthread_create(&thread, NULL, delay_pg_start, ark);
+		if (pthread_create(&thread, NULL, delay_pg_start, ark)) {
+			PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "Could not create pktgen "
+				    "starter thread\n");
+			return -1;
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (ark->user_ext.dev_start)
-- 
2.7.4