From nobody Sat Oct 4 03:17:37 2025 Received: from fanzine2.igalia.com (fanzine2.igalia.com [213.97.179.56]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E82822DA75C; Thu, 21 Aug 2025 10:22:11 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=213.97.179.56 ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1755771735; cv=none; b=ofCHjo37iNZtJfzx33xs+lWyemgqzL0J0Co3Kse0LGmL0D280aopMz5PmSTaB2Yx4M6Sec2W6eZLGCaQHK8Jt0P+jrz5ISXmLee4Q9vaeNlPO5LddKRrWF8I11muhqOeW3rg1UmuYZ+8kwEy3BMr5+Er7VuMGlDmguRHlWZDDfU= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1755771735; c=relaxed/simple; bh=P5LNrpuDso84evhrHDb5O/cBPmQFjz++sIDdWzNU4tY=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=HBHrI6XwA3700RnW+8T9IBA06AY/9M61WEluz76GcHO2pIVkdHj+FFo7AMo3BNp0qoKVdDkjYwYthNAWTwQzn5n3xl0Eoz21o0wXTolePwNfxcbYRB/+SkiVzlMqdINM/sSptu5RTe4YJtP1/SIf/714zZ0fB32uM+47UaEC42E= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=igalia.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=igalia.com; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=igalia.com header.i=@igalia.com header.b=rKsiUYA8; arc=none smtp.client-ip=213.97.179.56 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=igalia.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=igalia.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=igalia.com header.i=@igalia.com header.b="rKsiUYA8" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=igalia.com; s=20170329; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:MIME-Version:References:In-Reply-To: Message-Id:Date:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe: List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=zRAnHsOfkqVGryjONqmeYxIHoj1DfmYgpmMCpMPPlBQ=; b=rKsiUYA89wVGH3IG3P4L0TkD8B QhQhniq0xN2HodgjgeZ4GWESucqR9nCGc7TtiMk+wB8/Vyn7tZURFFXWZAMaqFixBOHWq5B2rFb6p z7wQxtSUXI1hxOPoy2Q1gFCA5qShbEFPdVmqOvNe3z0FoAuIYmfszhyqKMdJuMM0bzULyNYCK1u/U Arllm3Dd23QW780w1B8/oBSauPtNb1YAJB+ISdlMYEMPOq5bLFnJJ79Gu7pzyTL60Lswpd0XNusJy fpLijRYQp5Kgx2eycxatNBjbwMdOp9VisPFG29G6HY3C/NHebb6synSOrDscGUXrOvyPfIe07jPiv OC8vLlAg==; Received: from [223.233.68.152] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by fanzine2.igalia.com with esmtpsa (Cipher TLS1.3:ECDHE_X25519__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM:256) (Exim) id 1up2Qq-00HBmV-4T; Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:22:08 +0200 From: Bhupesh To: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: bhupesh@igalia.com, kernel-dev@igalia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, oliver.sang@intel.com, lkp@intel.com, laoar.shao@gmail.com, pmladek@suse.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, arnaldo.melo@gmail.com, alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com, andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com, mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl, peterz@infradead.org, willy@infradead.org, david@redhat.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, keescook@chromium.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, brauner@kernel.org, jack@suse.cz, mingo@redhat.com, juri.lelli@redhat.com, bsegall@google.com, mgorman@suse.de, vschneid@redhat.com, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kees@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: [PATCH v8 1/5] exec: Remove obsolete comments Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:51:48 +0530 Message-Id: <20250821102152.323367-2-bhupesh@igalia.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.38.1 In-Reply-To: <20250821102152.323367-1-bhupesh@igalia.com> References: <20250821102152.323367-1-bhupesh@igalia.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Patch 3a3f61ce5e0b ("exec: Make sure task->comm is always NUL-terminated"), replaced 'strscpy_pad()' with 'memcpy()' implementations inside '__set_task_comm()'. However a few left-over comments are still there, which mention the usage of 'strscpy_pad()' inside '__set_task_comm()'. Remove those obsolete comments. While at it, also remove an obsolete comment regarding 'task_lock()' usage while handing 'task->comm'. Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Reviewed-by: Kees Cook --- include/linux/sched.h | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index f8188b833350..24216259cda4 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1159,10 +1159,8 @@ struct task_struct { * * - normally initialized begin_new_exec() * - set it with set_task_comm() - * - strscpy_pad() to ensure it is always NUL-terminated and + * - logic inside set_task_comm() will ensure it is always NUL-terminat= ed and * zero-padded - * - task_lock() to ensure the operation is atomic and the name is - * fully updated. */ char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; =20 @@ -1972,7 +1970,7 @@ extern void __set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, = const char *from, bool exec * User space can randomly change their names anyway, so locking for rea= ders * doesn't make sense. For writers, locking is probably necessary, as a = race * condition could lead to long-term mixed results. - * The strscpy_pad() in __set_task_comm() can ensure that the task comm = is + * The logic inside __set_task_comm() should ensure that the task comm is * always NUL-terminated and zero-padded. Therefore the race condition b= etween * reader and writer is not an issue. * --=20 2.38.1