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Message-ID: <20220318071843.GF336@kadam>
Date:   Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:18:43 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com>
Cc:     dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        freedreno <freedreno@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        linux-arm-msm <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Rob Clark <robdclark@...omium.org>,
        Sean Paul <sean@...rly.run>,
        Abhinav Kumar <quic_abhinavk@...cinc.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        Akhil P Oommen <quic_akhilpo@...cinc.com>,
        Jonathan Marek <jonathan@...ek.ca>,
        Jordan Crouse <jordan@...micpenguin.net>,
        Emma Anholt <emma@...olt.net>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] drm/msm: Add a way to override processes comm/cmdline

On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 08:03:59AM -0700, Rob Clark wrote:
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gpu.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gpu.c
> > > index 4ec62b601adc..68f3f8ade76d 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gpu.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gpu.c
> > > @@ -364,14 +364,21 @@ static void retire_submits(struct msm_gpu *gpu);
> > >
> > >  static void get_comm_cmdline(struct msm_gem_submit *submit, char **comm, char **cmd)
> > >  {
> > > +     struct msm_file_private *ctx = submit->queue->ctx;
> > >       struct task_struct *task;
> > >
> > > +     *comm = kstrdup(ctx->comm, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +     *cmd  = kstrdup(ctx->cmdline, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +
> > >       task = get_pid_task(submit->pid, PIDTYPE_PID);
> > >       if (!task)
> > >               return;
> > >
> > > -     *comm = kstrdup(task->comm, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > -     *cmd = kstrdup_quotable_cmdline(task, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +     if (!*comm)
> > > +             *comm = kstrdup(task->comm, GFP_KERNEL);
> >
> > What?
> >
> > If the first allocation failed, then this one is going to fail as well.
> > Just return -ENOMEM.  Or maybe this is meant to be checking for an empty
> > string?
> 
> fwiw, if ctx->comm is NULL, the kstrdup() will return NULL, so this
> isn't intended to deal with OoM, but the case that comm and/or cmdline
> is not overridden.

Ah, I should have thought about that.  Thanks!

regards,
dan carpenter