linux-kernel - [tip:core/stacktrace] um/stacktrace: Remove the pointless ULONG

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Date:   Sun, 14 Apr 2019 13:34:07 -0700
From:   tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     luto@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        mingo@...nel.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        richard@....at, hpa@...or.com, jpoimboe@...hat.com,
        glider@...gle.com
Subject: [tip:core/stacktrace] um/stacktrace: Remove the pointless ULONG_MAX
 marker

Commit-ID:  fdc7833964d83b7f7f39a03e2ee48a229ba0291f
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/fdc7833964d83b7f7f39a03e2ee48a229ba0291f
Author:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
AuthorDate: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:27:55 +0200
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitDate: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 19:58:27 +0200

um/stacktrace: Remove the pointless ULONG_MAX marker

Terminating the last trace entry with ULONG_MAX is a completely pointless
exercise and none of the consumers can rely on it because it's
inconsistently implemented across architectures. In fact quite some of the
callers remove the entry and adjust stack_trace.nr_entries afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Cc: linux-um@...ts.infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190410103643.662853876@linutronix.de

---
 arch/um/kernel/stacktrace.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/um/kernel/stacktrace.c
index ebe7bcf62684..bd95e020d509 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/stacktrace.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/stacktrace.c
@@ -63,8 +63,6 @@ static const struct stacktrace_ops dump_ops = {
 static void __save_stack_trace(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stack_trace *trace)
 {
 	dump_trace(tsk, &dump_ops, trace);
-	if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries)
-		trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;
 }
 
 void save_stack_trace(struct stack_trace *trace)