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@xxxxxxxxxx>
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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