On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 02:51:14PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> As for why dmesg reports git-remote-http, I'm not sure. If you "strace
> -f" the command, you can see that git is running git-remote-https. Why
> the kernel chooses to report "git-remote-http", I don't know; you'd have
> to look into how the kernel makes that decision. But I doubt it is
> related to the reason for the segfault in the first place.
Ah, I see. The hard links are a red herring. The kernel's message uses
task->comm, which is presumably set by truncating the basename of the
program to 15 characters (16 bytes with a trailing NUL).
3.6 /proc/<pid>/comm & /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/comm
--------------------------------------------------------
These files provide a method to access a tasks comm value. It also
allows for a task to set its own or one of its thread siblings comm
value. The comm value is limited in size compared to the cmdline
value, so writing anything longer then the kernel's TASK_COMM_LEN
(currently 16 chars) will result in a truncated comm value.
Try:
$ echo 'int main() { sleep(5); *(int *)0=0; }' >foo.c
$ gcc -o 12345678901234567890 foo.c
$ ./123* &
$ cat /proc/$!/comm
123456789012345
$ sleep 5; dmesg | tail -n 1
[2602639.353584] 123456789012345[23062]: segfault at 0 ip 0000000000400524 sp 00007fff46bb0700 error 6 in 12345678901234567890[400000+1000]
In both cases we only get the first 15 bytes of the program name. And
indeed, "git-remote-http" is exactly 15 bytes. So it is dumb luck that
the limit is such that truncating the name makes it look like another
program.
-Peff
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