get rid of __get_task_comm()

Patch series "Improve the copy of task comm", v8.

Using {memcpy,strncpy,strcpy,kstrdup} to copy the task comm relies on the
length of task comm.  Changes in the task comm could result in a
destination string that is overflow.  Therefore, we should explicitly
ensure the destination string is always NUL-terminated, regardless of the
task comm.  This approach will facilitate future extensions to the task
comm.

As suggested by Linus [0], we can identify all relevant code with the
following git grep command:

  git grep 'memcpy.*->comm\>'
  git grep 'kstrdup.*->comm\>'
  git grep 'strncpy.*->comm\>'
  git grep 'strcpy.*->comm\>'

PATCH #2~#4:   memcpy
PATCH #5~#6:   kstrdup
PATCH #7:      strcpy

Please note that strncpy() is not included in this series as it is being
tracked by another effort. [1]


This patch (of 7):

We want to eliminate the use of __get_task_comm() for the following
reasons:

- The task_lock() is unnecessary
  Quoted from Linus [0]:
  : Since user space can randomly change their names anyway, using locking
  : was always wrong for readers (for writers it probably does make sense
  : to have some lock - although practically speaking nobody cares there
  : either, but at least for a writer some kind of race could have
  : long-term mixed results

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wivfrF0_zvf+oj6==Sh=-npJooP8chLPEfaFV0oNYTTBA@mail.gmail.com [0]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whWtUC-AjmGJveAETKOMeMFSTwKwu99v7+b6AyHMmaDFA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjAmmHUg6vho1KjzQi2=psR30+CogFd4aXrThr2gsiS4g@mail.gmail.com/ [0]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 [1]
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Biederman <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Matus Jokay <[email protected]>
Cc: Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Justin Stitt <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
Cc: David Airlie <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric Paris <[email protected]>
Cc: James Morris <[email protected]>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <[email protected]>
Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Moore <[email protected]>
Cc: Quentin Monnet <[email protected]>
Cc: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c
index 34a47fb0c57f..55ed3510d2bb 100644
--- a/fs/proc/array.c
+++ b/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ void proc_task_name(struct seq_file *m, struct task_struct *p, bool escape)
 	else if (p->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
 		get_kthread_comm(tcomm, sizeof(tcomm), p);
 	else
-		__get_task_comm(tcomm, sizeof(tcomm), p);
+		get_task_comm(tcomm, p);
 
 	if (escape)
 		seq_escape_str(m, tcomm, ESCAPE_SPACE | ESCAPE_SPECIAL, "\n\\");