[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
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.
-- 
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