From: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
To: keescook@chromium.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, peterz@infradead.org,
pmladek@suse.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, valentin.schneider@arm.com,
mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, qiang.zhang@windriver.com,
robdclark@chromium.org, christian@brauner.io,
dietmar.eggemann@arm.com, mingo@redhat.com,
juri.lelli@redhat.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org,
bsegall@google.com, mgorman@suse.de, bristot@redhat.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 4/4] kernel/kthread: show a warning if kthread's comm is truncated
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 10:24:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211010102429.99577-5-laoar.shao@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211010102429.99577-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Show a warning if task comm is truncated. Below is the result
of my test case:
truncated kthread comm:I-am-a-kthread-with-lon, pid:14 by 6 characters
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
---
kernel/kthread.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 5b37a8567168..46b924c92078 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -399,12 +399,17 @@ struct task_struct *__kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
if (!IS_ERR(task)) {
static const struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 0 };
char name[TASK_COMM_LEN];
+ int len;
/*
* task is already visible to other tasks, so updating
* COMM must be protected.
*/
- vsnprintf(name, sizeof(name), namefmt, args);
+ len = vsnprintf(name, sizeof(name), namefmt, args);
+ if (len >= TASK_COMM_LEN) {
+ pr_warn("truncated kthread comm:%s, pid:%d by %d characters\n",
+ name, task->pid, len - TASK_COMM_LEN + 1);
+ }
set_task_comm(task, name);
/*
* root may have changed our (kthreadd's) priority or CPU mask.
--
2.18.2
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-10 10:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-10 10:24 [PATCH v3 0/4] task_struct: extend task comm from 16 to 24 for CONFIG_BASE_FULL Yafang Shao
2021-10-10 10:24 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] connector: use __get_task_comm in proc_comm_connector Yafang Shao
2021-10-10 10:24 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] fs/exec: use strscpy instead of strlcpy in __set_task_comm Yafang Shao
2021-10-10 10:24 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] sched.h: extend task comm from 16 to 24 for CONFIG_BASE_FULL Yafang Shao
2021-10-14 7:27 ` [sched.h] 317419b91e: perf-sanity-tests.Parse_sched_tracepoints_fields.fail kernel test robot
2021-10-14 9:24 ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-14 12:42 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-10-14 13:05 ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-14 13:09 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-10-14 13:11 ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-14 13:50 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-10-14 14:40 ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-14 14:48 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-14 15:05 ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-14 16:14 ` Kees Cook
2021-10-15 2:05 ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-15 2:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2021-10-15 2:20 ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-19 16:51 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2021-10-20 4:01 ` Yafang Shao
2021-10-10 10:24 ` Yafang Shao [this message]
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