The commit 65c6604725 ("proc: fix the issue of proc_mem_open returning
NULL") caused proc_maps_open() to return -ESRCH when proc_mem_open()
returns NULL. This breaks legitimate /proc/<pid>/maps access for kernel
threads since kernel threads have NULL mm_struct.
The regression causes perf to fail and exit when profiling a kernel
thread:
# perf record -v -g -p $(pgrep kswapd0)
...
couldn't open /proc/65/task/65/maps
This patch partially reverts the commit to fix it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250807165455.73656-1-wjl.linux@gmail.com
Fixes: 65c6604725 ("proc: fix the issue of proc_mem_open returning NULL")
Signed-off-by: Jialin Wang <wjl.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Penglei Jiang <superman.xpt@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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