For more convenient access if one has a pointer to the task.

As a minor nit take advantage of the fact that only task lock + rcu are
needed to safely grab ->exe_file. This saves mm refcount dance.

Use the helper in proc_exe_link.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mgu...@redhat.com>
---
 fs/proc/base.c     |  7 +------
 include/linux/mm.h |  1 +
 kernel/fork.c      | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 2ed41cb..ebccdc1 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -1556,18 +1556,13 @@ static const struct file_operations 
proc_pid_set_comm_operations = {
 static int proc_exe_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct path *exe_path)
 {
        struct task_struct *task;
-       struct mm_struct *mm;
        struct file *exe_file;
 
        task = get_proc_task(d_inode(dentry));
        if (!task)
                return -ENOENT;
-       mm = get_task_mm(task);
+       exe_file = get_task_exe_file(task);
        put_task_struct(task);
-       if (!mm)
-               return -ENOENT;
-       exe_file = get_mm_exe_file(mm);
-       mmput(mm);
        if (exe_file) {
                *exe_path = exe_file->f_path;
                path_get(&exe_file->f_path);
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 9d85402..f4e639e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2014,6 +2014,7 @@ extern void mm_drop_all_locks(struct mm_struct *mm);
 
 extern void set_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *mm, struct file *new_exe_file);
 extern struct file *get_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *mm);
+extern struct file *get_task_exe_file(struct task_struct *task);
 
 extern bool may_expand_vm(struct mm_struct *, vm_flags_t, unsigned long 
npages);
 extern void vm_stat_account(struct mm_struct *, vm_flags_t, long npages);
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 6fe775c..84a636d 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -800,6 +800,30 @@ struct file *get_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *mm)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_mm_exe_file);
 
 /**
+ * get_task_exe_file - acquire a reference to the task's executable file
+ *
+ * Returns %NULL if task's mm (if any) has no associated executable file or
+ * this is a kernel thread with borrowed mm (see the comment above 
get_task_mm).
+ * User must release file via fput().
+ */
+struct file *get_task_exe_file(struct task_struct *task)
+{
+       struct file *exe_file = NULL;
+       struct mm_struct *mm;
+
+       task_lock(task);
+       mm = task->mm;
+       if (mm) {
+               if (!(task->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
+                       exe_file = get_mm_exe_file(mm);
+       }
+       task_unlock(task);
+out:
+       return exe_file;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_task_exe_file);
+
+/**
  * get_task_mm - acquire a reference to the task's mm
  *
  * Returns %NULL if the task has no mm.  Checks PF_KTHREAD (meaning
-- 
1.8.3.1

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