Merge tag 'v4.17-rc4' into patchwork

Linux 4.17-rc4

* tag 'v4.17-rc4': (920 commits)
  Linux 4.17-rc4
  KVM: x86: remove APIC Timer periodic/oneshot spikes
  genksyms: fix typo in parse.tab.{c,h} generation rules
  kbuild: replace hardcoded bison in cmd_bison_h with $(YACC)
  gcc-plugins: fix build condition of SANCOV plugin
  MAINTAINERS: Update Kbuild entry with a few paths
  Revert "usb: host: ehci: Use dma_pool_zalloc()"
  platform/x86: Kconfig: Fix dell-laptop dependency chain.
  platform/x86: asus-wireless: Fix NULL pointer dereference
  arm64: vgic-v2: Fix proxying of cpuif access
  KVM: arm/arm64: vgic_init: Cleanup reference to process_maintenance
  KVM: arm64: Fix order of vcpu_write_sys_reg() arguments
  MAINTAINERS & files: Canonize the e-mails I use at files
  media: imx-media-csi: Fix inconsistent IS_ERR and PTR_ERR
  tools: power/acpi, revert to LD = gcc
  bdi: Fix oops in wb_workfn()
  RDMA/cma: Do not query GID during QP state transition to RTR
  IB/mlx4: Fix integer overflow when calculating optimal MTT size
  IB/hfi1: Fix memory leak in exception path in get_irq_affinity()
  IB/{hfi1, rdmavt}: Fix memory leak in hfi1_alloc_devdata() upon failure
  ...

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);