From 7b2c7b6233497bfab8826ece574bc1c26e97478d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:28:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] arm64/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@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190410103644.220247845@linutronix.de
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
index d908b5e9e949c..b00ec7d483d1c 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c
@@ -140,8 +140,6 @@ void save_stack_trace_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, struct stack_trace *trace)
 #endif
 
 	walk_stackframe(current, &frame, save_trace, &data);
-	if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries)
-		trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(save_stack_trace_regs);
 
@@ -172,8 +170,6 @@ static noinline void __save_stack_trace(struct task_struct *tsk,
 #endif
 
 	walk_stackframe(tsk, &frame, save_trace, &data);
-	if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries)
-		trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;
 
 	put_task_stack(tsk);
 }
-- 
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