Re: ppc64le reliable stack unwinder and scheduled tasks

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Mon Jan 14 2019 - 12:09:40 EST


On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 11:46:59AM -0500, Joe Lawrence wrote:
> @@ -158,11 +158,21 @@ save_stack_trace_tsk_reliable(struct task_struct *tsk,
> return 1; /* invalid backlink, too far up. */
> }
>
> + /* We can only trust the bottom frame's backlink, the rest
> + * of the frame may be uninitialized, continue to the next. */
> + if (firstframe--)
> + goto next;

Won't this decrement firstframe on every iteration, so when firstframe
is 0, it will decrement it to -1, causing it to 'goto next' on all
future iterations?

--
Josh