(Cc John)
On Fri, 6 May 2011 21:26:39 +0900
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Direct access to current->comm is racy since we added
> > prctl(PR_SET_NAME).
>
> A passer-by's question. Did we change below one
>
> char *get_task_comm(char *buf, struct task_struct *tsk)
> {
> /* buf must be at least sizeof(tsk->comm) in size */
> task_lock(tsk);
> strncpy(buf, tsk->comm, sizeof(tsk->comm));
> task_unlock(tsk);
> return buf;
> }
>
> since some archs may do like
>
> char *strncpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t n)
> {
> size_t len = __strnend(src, n) - src;
> __builtin_memset(dest + len, 0, n - len);
> __builtin_memcpy(dest, src, len);
> return dest;
> }
>
> ( arch/s390/lib/string.c ) after adding prctl(PR_SET_NAME)?
I don't understand what you're asking, sorry.
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