diff --git a/drivers/staging/hilog/hilog.c b/drivers/staging/hilog/hilog.c
index dda06e14a906e15534670dd7cc300d0c3594c1c9..a9e3ad599f1462508b37f21fc9f1abb4ae38427d 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/hilog/hilog.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hilog/hilog.c
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ static void hilog_head_init(struct hilog_entry *header, size_t len)
 
 	header->len = len;
 	header->pid = current->pid;
-	header->task_id = current->pid;
+	header->task_id = current->tgid;
 	header->header_size = sizeof(struct hilog_entry);
 }