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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~torvalds#6: kstrdup PATCH torvalds#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: KSPP#90 [1] Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> Cc: Matus Jokay <matus.jokay@stuba.sk> Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org> Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Cc: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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