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>
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 @@
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;