Now that __get_task_comm() will truncate and pad, it's safe to use on both too-small and too-big arrays. So it is not needed to check array length any more. For the original goal of making sure get_task_comm() is being used on a char array, we can use __must_be_array(). Below is the verification when I changed the dest buffer of get_task_comm() in a driver code, CC [M] drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_file_ops.o In file included from ./include/linux/bits.h:22:0, from ./include/linux/ioport.h:13, from ./include/linux/pci.h:31, from drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_file_ops.c:35: drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_file_ops.c: In function ‘setup_ctxt’: ./include/linux/build_bug.h:16:51: error: negative width in bit-field ‘<anonymous>’ #define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) ((int)(sizeof(struct { int:(-!!(e)); }))) ^ ./include/linux/compiler.h:258:28: note: in expansion of macro ‘BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO’ #define __must_be_array(a) BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(__same_type((a), &(a)[0])) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ./include/linux/sched.h:1941:23: note: in expansion of macro ‘__must_be_array’ __get_task_comm(buf, __must_be_array(buf) + sizeof(buf), tsk) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_file_ops.c:1325:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘get_task_comm’ get_task_comm(test, current); It hit this warnig as expected. Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/sched.h | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index c1a927ddec64..b9c85c52fed0 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1931,10 +1931,8 @@ static inline void set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, const char *from) } extern char *__get_task_comm(char *to, size_t len, struct task_struct *tsk); -#define get_task_comm(buf, tsk) ({ \ - BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(buf) != TASK_COMM_LEN); \ - __get_task_comm(buf, sizeof(buf), tsk); \ -}) +#define get_task_comm(buf, tsk) \ + __get_task_comm(buf, __must_be_array(buf) + sizeof(buf), tsk) #ifdef CONFIG_SMP static __always_inline void scheduler_ipi(void) -- 2.17.1