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From: tip-bot for Yafang Shao <tipbot@zytor.com>
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Subject: [tip:x86/cleanups] x86/process: Avoid unnecessary NULL check in get_wchan()
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 23:03:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-6e662ae7bce6db602f79e57791f5fb887fb7d371@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1542798734-12532-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com>

Commit-ID:  6e662ae7bce6db602f79e57791f5fb887fb7d371
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/6e662ae7bce6db602f79e57791f5fb887fb7d371
Author:     Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 19:12:14 +0800
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 07:58:23 +0100

x86/process: Avoid unnecessary NULL check in get_wchan()

Task 'p' is always guaranteed to be non-NULL, because the only call
sites are in fs/proc/ which all guarantee a non-NULL task pointer.

[ mingo: Improved the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1542798734-12532-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index c93fcfdf1673..3c3ee8982577 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -730,7 +730,7 @@ unsigned long get_wchan(struct task_struct *p)
 	unsigned long start, bottom, top, sp, fp, ip, ret = 0;
 	int count = 0;
 
-	if (!p || p == current || p->state == TASK_RUNNING)
+	if (p == current || p->state == TASK_RUNNING)
 		return 0;
 
 	if (!try_get_task_stack(p))

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-23  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-21 11:12 [PATCH] arch/x86/kernel/process.c: avoid unnecessary NULL check in get_wchan Yafang Shao
2018-11-22 10:15 ` [tip:x86/cleanups] x86/process: Avoid unnecessary NULL check in get_wchan() tip-bot for Yafang Shao
2018-11-23  7:03 ` tip-bot for Yafang Shao [this message]

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