kern/thread: make thread_create slightly more convenient

Don't require the caller to pass a pointer to the newly created thread.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kern/thread.c b/kern/thread.c
index 85e557d3..e79ef311 100644
--- a/kern/thread.c
+++ b/kern/thread.c
@@ -2367,7 +2367,9 @@ thread_create(struct thread **threadp, const struct thread_attr *attr,
      * The new thread address must be written before the thread is started
      * in case it's passed to it.
      */
-    *threadp = thread;
+    if (threadp) {
+        *threadp = thread;
+    }
 
     thread_wakeup(thread);