linux-kernel - [GIT pull] core/urgent for 5.3-rc1

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Date:   Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:02:36 -0000
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: [GIT pull] core/urgent for 5.3-rc1

Linus,

please pull the latest core-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git core-urgent-for-linus

up to:  7e8e6816c649: stacktrace: Use PF_KTHREAD to check for kernel threads

Fix yet another instance of kernel thread check which ignores that kernel
threads can call use_mm().

Thanks,

	tglx

------------------>
Thomas Gleixner (1):
      stacktrace: Use PF_KTHREAD to check for kernel threads


 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));