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Message-ID: <ZfST6vIP6uaDLfLU@sashalap>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:31:06 -0400
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.15 64/76] proc: Use task_is_running() for wchan in
 /proc/$pid/stat

On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 08:04:36PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 12:42:11PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 4e046156792c26bef8a4e30be711777fc8578257 ]
>>
>> The implementations of get_wchan() can be expensive. The only information
>> imparted here is whether or not a process is currently blocked in the
>> scheduler (and even this doesn't need to be exact). Avoid doing the
>> heavy lifting of stack walking and just report that information by using
>> task_is_running().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
>> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211008111626.211281780@infradead.org
>> Stable-dep-of: 60f92acb60a9 ("fs/proc: do_task_stat: move thread_group_cputime_adjusted() outside of lock_task_sighand()")
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
>
>Looks fine to me. Can you double-check that commit
>54354c6a9f7f ("Revert "proc/wchan: use printk format instead of lookup_symbol_name()"")
>is already backported too?

Yup, it's there too.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha

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