Merge 4.17-rc3 into tty-next

We want the tty and serial driver fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index eafa39a3a88c..1b2ede6abcdf 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -1693,6 +1693,12 @@ void task_dump_owner(struct task_struct *task, umode_t mode,
 	kuid_t uid;
 	kgid_t gid;
 
+	if (unlikely(task->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) {
+		*ruid = GLOBAL_ROOT_UID;
+		*rgid = GLOBAL_ROOT_GID;
+		return;
+	}
+
 	/* Default to the tasks effective ownership */
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	cred = __task_cred(task);