The patch titled Subject: connector: send event on write to /proc/[pid]/comm has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is connector-send-event-on-write-to-proc-comm.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/connector-send-event-on-write-to-proc-comm.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/connector-send-event-on-write-to-proc-comm.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Ohhoon Kwon <ohoono.kwon@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: connector: send event on write to /proc/[pid]/comm While comm change event via prctl has been reported to proc connector by 'commit f786ecba4158 ("connector: add comm change event report to proc connector")', connector listeners were missing comm changes by explicit writes on /proc/[pid]/comm. Let explicit writes on /proc/[pid]/comm report to proc connector. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210701133458epcms1p68e9eb9bd0eee8903ba26679a37d9d960@epcms1p6 Signed-off-by: Ohhoon Kwon <ohoono.kwon@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/base.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/proc/base.c~connector-send-event-on-write-to-proc-comm +++ a/fs/proc/base.c @@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ #include <linux/posix-timers.h> #include <linux/time_namespace.h> #include <linux/resctrl.h> +#include <linux/cn_proc.h> #include <trace/events/oom.h> #include "internal.h" #include "fd.h" @@ -1674,8 +1675,10 @@ static ssize_t comm_write(struct file *f if (!p) return -ESRCH; - if (same_thread_group(current, p)) + if (same_thread_group(current, p)) { set_task_comm(p, buffer); + proc_comm_connector(p); + } else count = -EINVAL; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ohoono.kwon@xxxxxxxxxxx are mm-sparse-pass-section_nr-to-section_mark_present.patch mm-sparse-pass-section_nr-to-find_memory_block.patch mm-sparse-remove-__section_nr-function.patch connector-send-event-on-write-to-proc-comm.patch