On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 08:38:33AM +0000, Yafang Shao wrote: > This patchset is part of the patchset "extend task comm from 16 to 24"[1]. > Now we have different opinion that dynamically allocates memory to store > kthread's long name into a separate pointer, so I decide to take the useful > cleanups apart from the original patchset and send it separately[2]. > > These useful cleanups can make the usage around task comm less > error-prone. Furthermore, it will be useful if we want to extend task > comm in the future. > > All of the patches except patch #4 have either a reviewed-by or a > acked-by now. I have verfied that the vmcore/crash works well after > patch #4. > > [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211101060419.4682-1-laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx/ > [2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CALOAHbAx55AUo3bm8ZepZSZnw7A08cvKPdPyNTf=E_tPqmw5hw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Thanks for collecting this! It all looks good to me. Andrew, can you take these? -Kees -- Kees Cook