Re: [PATCH 01/15] kmemleak: Add the base support

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:50:46 +0000 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Or, is there a way to tell whether it's in a kernel
> thread or user process context? Checking current->mm?

Yup, that'll work.  There might be small windows during process startup
and termination where a real process can have a NULL ->mm, but those
are probably benign in this case.

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