Commit-ID:  7e8e6816c6495a1168f9a7a50125d82c23e59300
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/7e8e6816c6495a1168f9a7a50125d82c23e59300
Author:     Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
AuthorDate: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 17:53:35 +0200
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
CommitDate: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 09:04:06 +0200

stacktrace: Use PF_KTHREAD to check for kernel threads

!current->mm is not a reliable indicator for kernel threads as they might
temporarily use a user mm. Check for PF_KTHREAD instead.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org>
Link: 
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.deb.2.21.1907021750100.1...@nanos.tec.linutronix.de

---
 kernel/stacktrace.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/stacktrace.c b/kernel/stacktrace.c
index 36139de0a3c4..c8d0f05721a1 100644
--- a/kernel/stacktrace.c
+++ b/kernel/stacktrace.c
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ unsigned int stack_trace_save_user(unsigned long *store, 
unsigned int size)
        };
 
        /* Trace user stack if not a kernel thread */
-       if (!current->mm)
+       if (current->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
                return 0;
 
        arch_stack_walk_user(consume_entry, &c, task_pt_regs(current));

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