kernel_thread() should just return an error value on do_fork failure, not
panic.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
        current->thread.request.u.thread.arg = arg;
        pid = do_fork(CLONE_VM | CLONE_UNTRACED | flags, 0,
                      ¤t->thread.regs, 0, NULL, NULL);
-       if(pid < 0)
-               panic("do_fork failed in kernel_thread, errno = %d", pid);
        return pid;
 }