[PATCH v6 12/12] kernel/kthread: show a warning if kthread's comm is truncated
From: Yafang Shao <hidden>
Date: 2021-10-25 08:35:27
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Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
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 <redacted> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <redacted> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <redacted> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <redacted> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Kees Cook <redacted> 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.
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