From 4cc0473d7754d387680bdf0728eb29f0ec8834bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yafang Shao Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2024 22:49:05 +0800 Subject: get rid of __get_task_comm() Patch series "Improve the copy of task comm", v8. Using {memcpy,strncpy,strcpy,kstrdup} to copy the task comm relies on the length of task comm. Changes in the task comm could result in a destination string that is overflow. Therefore, we should explicitly ensure the destination string is always NUL-terminated, regardless of the task comm. This approach will facilitate future extensions to the task comm. As suggested by Linus [0], we can identify all relevant code with the following git grep command: git grep 'memcpy.*->comm\>' git grep 'kstrdup.*->comm\>' git grep 'strncpy.*->comm\>' git grep 'strcpy.*->comm\>' PATCH #2~#4: memcpy PATCH #5~#6: kstrdup PATCH #7: strcpy Please note that strncpy() is not included in this series as it is being tracked by another effort. [1] This patch (of 7): We want to eliminate the use of __get_task_comm() for the following reasons: - The task_lock() is unnecessary Quoted from Linus [0]: : Since user space can randomly change their names anyway, using locking : was always wrong for readers (for writers it probably does make sense : to have some lock - although practically speaking nobody cares there : either, but at least for a writer some kind of race could have : long-term mixed results Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241007144911.27693-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241007144911.27693-2-laoar.shao@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wivfrF0_zvf+oj6==Sh=-npJooP8chLPEfaFV0oNYTTBA@mail.gmail.com [0] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whWtUC-AjmGJveAETKOMeMFSTwKwu99v7+b6AyHMmaDFA@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjAmmHUg6vho1KjzQi2=psR30+CogFd4aXrThr2gsiS4g@mail.gmail.com/ [0] Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 [1] Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Matus Jokay Cc: Alejandro Colomar Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Justin Stitt Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Daniel Vetter Cc: David Airlie Cc: Eric Paris Cc: James Morris Cc: Maarten Lankhorst Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Maxime Ripard Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek Cc: Paul Moore Cc: Quentin Monnet Cc: Simon Horman Cc: Stephen Smalley Cc: Thomas Zimmermann Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/kthread.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/kthread.c') diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c index 9bb36897b6c6..a5ac612b1609 100644 --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ void get_kthread_comm(char *buf, size_t buf_size, struct task_struct *tsk) struct kthread *kthread = to_kthread(tsk); if (!kthread || !kthread->full_name) { - __get_task_comm(buf, buf_size, tsk); + strscpy(buf, tsk->comm, buf_size); return; } -- cgit v1.2.3