[PATCH 0/7] task comm cleanups

From: Yafang Shao
Date: Mon Nov 08 2021 - 03:39:30 EST


This patchset is part of the patchset "extend task comm from 16 to 24"[1].
Now we have different opinion that dynamically allocates memory to store
kthread's long name into a separate pointer, so I decide to take the useful
cleanups apart from the original patchset and send it separately[2].

These useful cleanups can make the usage around task comm less
error-prone. Furthermore, it will be useful if we want to extend task
comm in the future.

All of the patches except patch #4 have either a reviewed-by or a
acked-by now. I have verfied that the vmcore/crash works well after
patch #4.

[1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211101060419.4682-1-laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx/
[2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CALOAHbAx55AUo3bm8ZepZSZnw7A08cvKPdPyNTf=E_tPqmw5hw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Miroslaw <mirq-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>

Yafang Shao (7):
fs/exec: make __set_task_comm always set a nul terminated string
fs/exec: make __get_task_comm always get a nul terminated string
drivers/infiniband: use get_task_comm instead of open-coded string
copy
fs/binfmt_elf: use get_task_comm instead of open-coded string copy
samples/bpf/test_overhead_kprobe_kern: make it adopt to task comm size
change
tools/bpf/bpftool/skeleton: use bpf_probe_read_kernel_str to get task
comm
tools/testing/selftests/bpf: make it adopt to task comm size change

drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib.h | 2 +-
drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_file_ops.c | 2 +-
fs/binfmt_elf.c | 2 +-
fs/exec.c | 5 +++--
include/linux/sched.h | 9 +++++++--
samples/bpf/offwaketime_kern.c | 4 ++--
samples/bpf/test_overhead_kprobe_kern.c | 11 ++++++-----
samples/bpf/test_overhead_tp_kern.c | 5 +++--
tools/bpf/bpftool/skeleton/pid_iter.bpf.c | 4 ++--
.../testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_stacktrace_map.c | 6 +++---
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/test_tracepoint.c | 6 +++---
11 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

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