[tip:x86/cleanups] x86/process: Avoid unnecessary NULL check in get_wchan()

tip-bot for Yafang Shao
2018-11-23T07:04:42Z

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)