linux-kernel - [PATCH] ocfs2: use get_task

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Message-Id: <20171205152110.2050975-1-arnd@arndb.de>
Date:   Tue,  5 Dec 2017 16:20:50 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@...sity.com>, Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Joseph Qi <jiangqi903@...il.com>, piaojun <piaojun@...wei.com>,
        ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ocfs2: use get_task_comm

While reviewing all callers of get_task_comm(), I stumbled
over this one that claimed it was not exported, when in fact
it is. Accessing task->comm directly is not safe, so better
convert this one to using get_task_comm as well.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
---
 fs/ocfs2/cluster/netdebug.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/netdebug.c b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/netdebug.c
index 74a21f6695c8..a51d001b89b1 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/cluster/netdebug.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/cluster/netdebug.c
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ static void *nst_seq_next(struct seq_file *seq, void *v, loff_t *pos)
 static int nst_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
 {
 	struct o2net_send_tracking *nst, *dummy_nst = seq->private;
+	char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN];
 	ktime_t now;
 	s64 sock, send, status;
 
@@ -142,8 +143,8 @@ static int nst_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
 	sock = ktime_to_us(ktime_sub(now, nst->st_sock_time));
 	send = ktime_to_us(ktime_sub(now, nst->st_send_time));
 	status = ktime_to_us(ktime_sub(now, nst->st_status_time));
+	get_task_comm(comm, nst->st_task);
 
-	/* get_task_comm isn't exported.  oh well. */
 	seq_printf(seq, "%p:\n"
 		   "  pid:          %lu\n"
 		   "  tgid:         %lu\n"
@@ -158,7 +159,7 @@ static int nst_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
 		   "  wait start:   %lld usecs ago\n",
 		   nst, (unsigned long)task_pid_nr(nst->st_task),
 		   (unsigned long)nst->st_task->tgid,
-		   nst->st_task->comm, nst->st_node,
+		   comm, nst->st_node,
 		   nst->st_sc, nst->st_id, nst->st_msg_type,
 		   nst->st_msg_key,
 		   (long long)sock,
-- 
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