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 <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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