Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Jun 2019 13:18:48 +0100 | From | Will Deacon <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] arm64: remove useless condition |
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On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 08:38:57PM +0900, jinho lim wrote: > dump_instr function checks user_mode internally. > > Signed-off-by: jinho lim <jordan.lim@samsung.com> > --- > arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c | 3 +-- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c > index ccc13b45d9b1..694e78b950ca 100644 > --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c > +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c > @@ -182,8 +182,7 @@ static int __die(const char *str, int err, struct pt_regs *regs) > print_modules(); > show_regs(regs); > > - if (!user_mode(regs)) > - dump_instr(KERN_EMERG, regs); > + dump_instr(KERN_EMERG, regs);
I don't think this is right, because it means we'll now dump the current user instruction on the die() path.
Instead, we should probably rename dump_instr to dump_kernel_instr(), and have it return immediately if user_mode(regs). We can also kill __dump_instr completely.
Will
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