There're many hard-coded 16 used to store task comm in the kernel, that
makes it error prone if we want to change the value of TASK_COMM_LEN. A
new marco TASK_COMM_LEN_16 is introduced to replace these old ones, then
we can easily grep them.
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <redacted>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <redacted>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
---
include/linux/sched.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index c1a927ddec64..62d5b30d310c 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -274,6 +274,8 @@ struct task_group;
#define get_current_state() READ_ONCE(current->__state)
+/* To replace the old hard-coded 16 */
+#define TASK_COMM_LEN_16 16
/* Task command name length: */
#define TASK_COMM_LEN 16
--
2.17.1