[PATCH v6 00/12] extend task comm from 16 to 24

[Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>]

There're many truncated kthreads in the kernel, which may make trouble
for the user, for example, the user can't get detailed device
information from the task comm.

This patchset tries to improve this problem fundamentally by extending
the task comm size from 16 to 24. In order to do that, we have to do
some cleanups first.

1. Make the copy of task comm always safe no matter what the task
   comm size is. For example,

      Unsafe                 Safe
      strlcpy                strscpy_pad
      strncpy                strscpy_pad
      bpf_probe_read_kernel  bpf_probe_read_kernel_str
                             bpf_core_read_str
                             bpf_get_current_comm
                             perf_event__prepare_comm
                             prctl(2)

   After this step, the comm size change won't make any trouble to the 
   kernel or the in-tree tools for example perf, BPF programs.

2. Cleanup some old hard-coded 16
   Actually we don't need to convert all of them to TASK_COMM_LEN or
   TASK_COMM_LEN_16, what we really care about is if the convert can
   make the code more reasonable or easier to understand. For
   example, some in-tree tools read the comm from sched:sched_switch
   tracepoint, as it is derived from the kernel, we'd better make them
   consistent with the kernel.

3. Extend the task comm size from 16 to 24
   task_struct is growing rather regularly by 8 bytes. This size change
   should be acceptable. We used to think about extending the size for
   CONFIG_BASE_FULL only, but that would be a burden for maintenance 
   and introduce code complexity.

4. Print a warning if the kthread comm is still truncated.

5. What will happen to the out-of-tree tools after this change?
   If the tool get task comm through kernel API, for example prctl(2),
   bpf_get_current_comm() and etc, then it doesn't matter how large the
   user buffer is, because it will always get a string with a nul
   terminator. While if it gets the task comm through direct string copy,
   the user tool must make sure the copied string has a nul terminator
   itself. As TASK_COMM_LEN is not exposed to userspace, there's no
   reason that it must require a fixed-size task comm.

Changes since v5:
- extend the comm size for both CONFIG_BASE_{FULL, SMALL} that could
  make the code more simple and easier to maintain.
- avoid changing too much hard-coded 16 in BPF programs per Andrii. 

Changes since v4:
- introduce TASK_COMM_LEN_16 and TASK_COMM_LEN_24 per Steven
- replace hard-coded 16 with TASK_COMM_LEN_16 per Kees
- use strscpy_pad() instead of strlcpy()/strncpy() per Kees
- make perf test adopt to task comm size change per Arnaldo and Mathieu
- fix warning reported by kernel test robot

Changes since v3:
- fixes -Wstringop-truncation warning reported by kernel test robot

Changes since v2:
- avoid change UAPI code per Kees
- remove the description of out of tree code from commit log per Peter

Changes since v1:
- extend task comm to 24bytes, per Petr
- improve the warning per Petr
- make the checkpatch warning a separate patch

Yafang Shao (12):
  fs/exec: make __set_task_comm always set a nul ternimated string
  fs/exec: make __get_task_comm always get a nul terminated string
  drivers/connector: make connector comm always nul ternimated
  drivers/infiniband: make setup_ctxt always get a nul terminated task
    comm
  elfcore: make prpsinfo always get a nul terminated task comm
  samples/bpf/test_overhead_kprobe_kern: make it adopt to task comm size
    change
  samples/bpf/offwaketime_kern: make sched_switch tracepoint args adopt
    to comm size change
  tools/bpf/bpftool/skeleton: make it adopt to task comm size change
  tools/perf/test: make perf test adopt to task comm size change
  tools/testing/selftests/bpf: make it adopt to task comm size change
  sched.h: extend task comm from 16 to 24
  kernel/kthread: show a warning if kthread's comm is truncated

 drivers/connector/cn_proc.c                   |  5 +++-
 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/elfcore-compat.h                |  3 ++-
 include/linux/elfcore.h                       |  4 +--
 include/linux/sched.h                         |  9 +++++--
 kernel/kthread.c                              |  7 ++++-
 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 +--
 tools/include/linux/sched.h                   | 11 ++++++++
 tools/perf/tests/evsel-tp-sched.c             | 26 ++++++++++++++-----
 .../selftests/bpf/progs/test_stacktrace_map.c |  6 ++---
 .../selftests/bpf/progs/test_tracepoint.c     |  6 ++---
 17 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/include/linux/sched.h

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