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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index d277e83ed3e0..42451aeb245f 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -774,6 +774,29 @@ struct file *get_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *mm) EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_mm_exe_file); /** + * get_task_exe_file - acquire a reference to the task's executable file + * + * Returns %NULL if task's mm (if any) has no associated executable file or + * this is a kernel thread with borrowed mm (see the comment above get_task_mm). + * User must release file via fput(). + */ +struct file *get_task_exe_file(struct task_struct *task) +{ + struct file *exe_file = NULL; + struct mm_struct *mm; + + task_lock(task); + mm = task->mm; + if (mm) { + if (!(task->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) + exe_file = get_mm_exe_file(mm); + } + task_unlock(task); + return exe_file; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_task_exe_file); + +/** * get_task_mm - acquire a reference to the task's mm * * Returns %NULL if the task has no mm. Checks PF_KTHREAD (meaning |