diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
index 202df6c..2a1abba 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c
@@ -156,7 +156,11 @@ check_stack(unsigned long ip, unsigned long *stack)
 		for (; p < top && i < stack_trace_max.nr_entries; p++) {
 			if (stack_dump_trace[i] == ULONG_MAX)
 				break;
-			if (*p == stack_dump_trace[i]) {
+			/*
+			 * The READ_ONCE_NOCHECK is used to let KASAN know that
+			 * this is not a stack-out-of-bounds error.
+			 */
+			if ((READ_ONCE_NOCHECK(*p)) == stack_dump_trace[i]) {
 				stack_dump_trace[x] = stack_dump_trace[i++];
 				this_size = stack_trace_index[x++] =
 					(top - p) * sizeof(unsigned long);
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/instances/instance.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/instances/instance.tc
index 773e276..1e1abe0 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/instances/instance.tc
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/instances/instance.tc
@@ -39,28 +39,23 @@ instance_slam() {
 }
 
 instance_slam &
-x=`jobs -l`
-p1=`echo $x | cut -d' ' -f2`
+p1=$!
 echo $p1
 
 instance_slam &
-x=`jobs -l | tail -1`
-p2=`echo $x | cut -d' ' -f2`
+p2=$!
 echo $p2
 
 instance_slam &
-x=`jobs -l | tail -1`
-p3=`echo $x | cut -d' ' -f2`
+p3=$!
 echo $p3
 
 instance_slam &
-x=`jobs -l | tail -1`
-p4=`echo $x | cut -d' ' -f2`
+p4=$!
 echo $p4
 
 instance_slam &
-x=`jobs -l | tail -1`
-p5=`echo $x | cut -d' ' -f2`
+p5=$!
 echo $p5
 
 ls -lR >/dev/null