Merge remote-tracking branch 'lts/linux-4.4.y' into linux-linaro-lsk-v4.4

Conflicts:
	resovle the conflict on pax_copy for
	arch/ia64/include/asm/uaccess.h
	arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h
	arch/sparc/include/asm/uaccess_32.h

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index c485cb156772..8860d1f50d24 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -764,6 +764,29 @@ 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