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authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>2012-01-28 13:52:46 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2012-01-28 13:09:06 +0100
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x86/dumpstack: Remove unneeded check in dump_trace()
Smatch complains that we have some inconsistent NULL checking. If "task" were NULL then it would lead to a NULL dereference later. We can remove this test because earlier on in the function we have: if (!task) task = current; Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120128105246.GA25092@elgon.mountain Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
index 6d728d9284bd..af7785ff5aa0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ void dump_trace(struct task_struct *task, struct pt_regs *regs,
if (!stack) {
if (regs)
stack = (unsigned long *)regs->sp;
- else if (task && task != current)
+ else if (task != current)
stack = (unsigned long *)task->thread.sp;
else
stack = &dummy;