proc: don't allow async path resolution of /proc/self components

[ Upstream commit 8d4c3e7 ]

If this is attempted by a kthread, then return -EOPNOTSUPP as we don't
currently support that. Once we can get task_pid_ptr() doing the right
thing, then this can go away again.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

Author: axboe

fs/proc/self.c

@@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ static const char *proc_self_get_link(struct dentry *dentry,
 	pid_t tgid = task_tgid_nr_ns(current, ns);
 	char *name;
 
+	/*
+	 * Not currently supported. Once we can inherit all of struct pid,
+	 * we can allow this.
+	 */
+	if (current->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
+		return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP);
+
 	if (!tgid)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
 	/* 11 for max length of signed int in decimal + NULL term */