linux-kernel - [RFC patch 13/41] mm/kasan: Remove the ULONG

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Date:   Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:28:07 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [RFC patch 13/41] mm/kasan: Remove the ULONG_MAX stack trace hackery

No architecture terminates the stack trace with ULONG_MAX anymore. Remove
the cruft.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Cc: kasan-dev@...glegroups.com
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
---
 mm/kasan/common.c |    3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/kasan/common.c
+++ b/mm/kasan/common.c
@@ -74,9 +74,6 @@ static inline depot_stack_handle_t save_
 
 	save_stack_trace(&trace);
 	filter_irq_stacks(&trace);
-	if (trace.nr_entries != 0 &&
-	    trace.entries[trace.nr_entries-1] == ULONG_MAX)
-		trace.nr_entries--;
 
 	return depot_save_stack(&trace, flags);
 }