Processes started with kernel_execve from a kernel thread will have
current->mm==NULL. Reading current->mm->context.alloc_pgste will
read a more or less random bit from lowcore in this case. If the
bit turns out to be set the whole process tree started this way
will allocate page table extensions although they have no need
for it.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
mm->context.asce_bits |= _ASCE_TYPE_REGION3;
#endif
- if (current->mm->context.alloc_pgste) {
+ if (current->mm && current->mm->context.alloc_pgste) {
/*
* alloc_pgste indicates, that any NEW context will be created
* with extended page tables. The old context is unchanged. The