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: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
---
mm/kmemleak.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index 6e9e8cca663e..42ea3c14b577 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -1290,10 +1290,10 @@ static int scan_should_stop(void)
* This function may be called from either process or kthread context,
* hence the need to check for both stop conditions.
*/
- if (current->mm)
- return signal_pending(current);
- else
+ if (is_kthread(current))
return kthread_should_stop();
+ else
+ return signal_pending(current);
return 0;
}
--
2.11.0
