Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:52:46 +0300 | From | Dan Carpenter <> | Subject | [patch] x86, dumpstack: removed unneeded check in dump_trace() |
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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>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c index 6d728d9..af7785f 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;
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