[PATCH v5 4/9] tracing: Do not bother getting user space stacktraces for kernel threads
Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:25:00 -0400
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-toolchains,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-perf-users,org.kernel.vger.linux-trace-kernel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
From: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> If a user space stacktrace is requested when running a kernel thread, just return, as there's no point trying to get the user space stacktrace as there is no user space. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]> --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 8ddf6b17215c..523e98cd121d 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -3087,6 +3087,10 @@ ftrace_trace_userstack(struct trace_array *tr, if (!(tr->trace_flags & TRACE_ITER_USERSTACKTRACE)) return; + /* No point doing user space stacktraces on kernel threads */ + if (current->flags & PF_KTHREAD) + return; + /* * NMIs can not handle page faults, even with fix ups. * The save user stack can (and often does) fault. -- 2.47.2