In general, a non-NULL current->mm doesn't imply that current is a
kthread, as kthreads can install an mm via use_mm(), and so it's
preferable to use is_kthread() to determine whether a thread is a
kthread.
For consistency, let's use is_kthread() here.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
---
samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c
b/samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c
index 186315ca88b3..d6e0bf196f0e 100644
--- a/samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c
+++ b/samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static int entry_handler(struct kretprobe_instance *ri,
struct pt_regs *regs)
{
struct my_data *data;
- if (!current->mm)
+ if (is_kthread(current))
return 1; /* Skip kernel threads */
data = (struct my_data *)ri->data;
--
2.11.0
