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x86/dumpstack: Remove 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>
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>
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Dan Carpenter 2012-01-28 13:52:46 +03:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar
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@ -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;