On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 01:52:46PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > 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> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> > > 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; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html