[PATCH] kthread: update comment for __to_kthread

From: Jiazi Li
Date: Thu Jun 19 2025 - 08:07:06 EST


With commit 343f4c49f243 ("kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct
for init and umh") and commit 753550eb0ce1 ("fork: Explicitly set
PF_KTHREAD"), umh task no longer have struct kthread and PF_KTHREAD flag.
Io_uring worker thread does not have PF_KTHREAD flag, but worker_private
is not null, so update comment for __to_kthread.

Signed-off-by: Jiazi Li <jqqlijiazi@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: mingzhu.wang <mingzhu.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/kthread.c | 10 +++-------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 85fc068f0083..810cc244b81c 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -88,13 +88,9 @@ static inline struct kthread *to_kthread(struct task_struct *k)
/*
* Variant of to_kthread() that doesn't assume @p is a kthread.
*
- * Per construction; when:
- *
- * (p->flags & PF_KTHREAD) && p->worker_private
- *
- * the task is both a kthread and struct kthread is persistent. However
- * PF_KTHREAD on it's own is not, kernel_thread() can exec() (See umh.c and
- * begin_new_exec()).
+ * For io_uring worker thread, p->worker_private point to io_worker
+ * struct, but they do not have PF_KTHREAD flag.
+ * Return NULL for such tasks.
*/
static inline struct kthread *__to_kthread(struct task_struct *p)
{
--
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