linux-kernel - Re: [Git pull] arch/x86 updates

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Date:	Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:19:25 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [Git pull] arch/x86 updates

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
> > Pavel Emelyanov (1):
> >       i386: consolidate show_regs and show_registers for i386
> 
> While I think this is good otherwise, why does it do
> 
> 	printk(".. comm: %.*s .."
> 		TASK_COMM_LEN, current->comm,
> 
> instead of just using "%s" and "current->comm"? I only noticed because 
> there was an unrelated conflict around that thing.
> 
> That "current->comm" had better be NUL-terminated already, we use it as 
> such all over the place. And if it's not, *that* should be fixed.

Fair enough. Did not notice.

     tglx
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