linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] kernel/kthread: show a warning if kthread's comm is still trucated

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Date:   Wed, 29 Sep 2021 11:20:49 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, pmladek@...e.com, peterz@...radead.org,
        valentin.schneider@....com, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        qiang.zhang@...driver.com, robdclark@...omium.org,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, christian@...uner.io,
        dietmar.eggemann@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] kernel/kthread: show a warning if kthread's comm is
 still trucated

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 11:50:36AM +0000, Yafang Shao wrote:
> Show a warning if the ktrhead's comm is still trucated. Below is the
> result of my test case -
> 
> __kthread_create_on_node:410: comm of pid 14 is truncated from "I-am-a-kthread-with-long-name" to "I-am-a-kthread-with-lon"
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>

I like this check as a reasonable way to make kthread authors aware of
the TASK_COMM_LEN limitation.

-Kees

> ---
>  kernel/kthread.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
> index 6def951c605a..aa093f1f423a 100644
> --- a/kernel/kthread.c
> +++ b/kernel/kthread.c
> @@ -404,7 +404,11 @@ struct task_struct *__kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
>  		 * task is already visible to other tasks, so updating
>  		 * COMM must be protected.
>  		 */
> -		vsnprintf(name, sizeof(name), namefmt, args);
> +		if (vsnprintf(name, KTHREAD_COMM_LEN, namefmt, args) >=
> +		    KTHREAD_COMM_LEN)
> +			pr_warn("%s:%d: comm of pid %d is truncated from \"%s\" to \"%s\"\n",
> +				__func__, __LINE__, task->pid, namefmt, name);
> +
>  		set_task_comm(task, name);
>  		/*
>  		 * root may have changed our (kthreadd's) priority or CPU mask.
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 

-- 
Kees Cook