Thread (21 messages) 21 messages, 6 authors, 2024-06-05

Re: [PATCH 1/6] fs/exec: Drop task_lock() inside __get_task_comm()

From: Matus Jokay <hidden>
Date: 2024-06-04 13:31:26
Also in: bpf, linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, linux-security-module, selinux
Subsystem: scheduler, the rest · Maintainers: Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra, Juri Lelli, Vincent Guittot, Linus Torvalds

Hi Yafang,
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index c75fd46506df..56a927393a38 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1083,7 +1083,7 @@ struct task_struct {
 	 *
 	 * - normally initialized setup_new_exec()
 	 * - access it with [gs]et_task_comm()
-	 * - lock it with task_lock()
+	 * - lock it with task_lock() for writing
since you are updating this comment, you might as well fix other comments concerning ->comm, e.g.
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index c75fd46506df..95b382d790d9 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1081,9 +1081,9 @@ struct task_struct {
 	/*
 	 * executable name, excluding path.
 	 *
-	 * - normally initialized setup_new_exec()
-	 * - access it with [gs]et_task_comm()
-	 * - lock it with task_lock()
+	 * - normally initialized begin_new_exec()
+	 * - access it with __[gs]et_task_comm()
+	 * - lock it with task_lock() for writing
 	 */
 	char				comm[TASK_COMM_LEN];
-- 
Thanks
mY
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