netdev - [PATCH v3 09/11] tracing: Replace strncpy() with __get_task

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Message-Id: <20240621022959.9124-10-laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 10:29:57 +0800
From: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>
To: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	alexei.starovoitov@...il.com,
	rostedt@...dmis.org,
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	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 09/11] tracing: Replace strncpy() with __get_task_comm()

Using __get_task_comm() to read the task comm ensures that the name is
always NUL-terminated, regardless of the source string. This approach also
facilitates future extensions to the task comm.

Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c             | 2 +-
 kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 578a49ff5c32..ce94a86154a2 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -1907,7 +1907,7 @@ __update_max_tr(struct trace_array *tr, struct task_struct *tsk, int cpu)
 	max_data->critical_start = data->critical_start;
 	max_data->critical_end = data->critical_end;
 
-	strncpy(max_data->comm, tsk->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN);
+	__get_task_comm(max_data->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN, tsk);
 	max_data->pid = tsk->pid;
 	/*
 	 * If tsk == current, then use current_uid(), as that does not use
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index 6ece1308d36a..721d4758a79f 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -1599,7 +1599,7 @@ static inline void save_comm(char *comm, struct task_struct *task)
 		return;
 	}
 
-	strncpy(comm, task->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN);
+	__get_task_comm(comm, TASK_COMM_LEN, task);
 }
 
 static void hist_elt_data_free(struct hist_elt_data *elt_data)
-- 
2.39.1