[PATCH] x86-64: do not always end the stack trace with ULONG_MAX

It makes more sense to end the stack trace with ULONG_MAX only if
nr_entries < max_entries.  Otherwise, we lose one entry in the long stack
traces and cannot know whether the trace was complete or not.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/stacktrace.c
index 6026b31d037..65ac2c6b34a 100644
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/stacktrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/stacktrace.c
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ static void save_stack_address(void *data, unsigned long addr)
                 trace->skip--;
                 return;
         }
-        if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries - 1)
+        if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries)
                 trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = addr;
 }
 
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ static struct stacktrace_ops save_stack_ops = {
 void save_stack_trace(struct stack_trace *trace, struct task_struct *task)
 {
         dump_trace(task, NULL, NULL, &save_stack_ops, trace);
-        trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;
+        if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries)
+                trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(save_stack_trace);