Historically due to the 16-byte length of TASK_COMM_LEN, the users of 'tsk->comm' are restricted to use a fixed-size target buffer also of TASK_COMM_LEN for 'memcpy()' like use-cases.
To fix the same, we now use a 64-byte TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN and set the comm element inside 'task_struct' to the same length: struct task_struct { ..... char comm[TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN]; ..... }; where TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN is 64-bytes. Note, that the existing users have not been modified to migrate to 'TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN', in case they have hard-coded expectations of dealing with only a 'TASK_COMM_LEN' long 'tsk->comm'. Signed-off-by: Bhupesh <bhup...@igalia.com> --- include/linux/sched.h | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index 35f1ef06eb6c..87e9dfaf61ac 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -318,6 +318,7 @@ struct user_event_mm; */ enum { TASK_COMM_LEN = 16, + TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN = 64, }; extern void sched_tick(void); @@ -1162,7 +1163,7 @@ struct task_struct { * - logic inside set_task_comm() will ensure it is always NUL-terminated and * zero-padded */ - char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; + char comm[TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN]; struct nameidata *nameidata; @@ -1961,7 +1962,7 @@ extern void kick_process(struct task_struct *tsk); extern void __set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, const char *from, bool exec); #define set_task_comm(tsk, from) ({ \ - BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(from) != TASK_COMM_LEN); \ + BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(from) < TASK_COMM_LEN); \ __set_task_comm(tsk, from, false); \ }) -- 2.38.1