linux-stable/fs/proc
Yafang Shao d6986ce24f kthread: dynamically allocate memory to store kthread's full name
When I was implementing a new per-cpu kthread cfs_migration, I found the
comm of it "cfs_migration/%u" is truncated due to the limitation of
TASK_COMM_LEN.  For example, the comm of the percpu thread on CPU10~19
all have the same name "cfs_migration/1", which will confuse the user.
This issue is not critical, because we can get the corresponding CPU
from the task's Cpus_allowed.  But for kthreads corresponding to other
hardware devices, it is not easy to get the detailed device info from
task comm, for example,

    jbd2/nvme0n1p2-
    xfs-reclaim/sdf

Currently there are so many truncated kthreads:

    rcu_tasks_kthre
    rcu_tasks_rude_
    rcu_tasks_trace
    poll_mpt3sas0_s
    ext4-rsv-conver
    xfs-reclaim/sd{a, b, c, ...}
    xfs-blockgc/sd{a, b, c, ...}
    xfs-inodegc/sd{a, b, c, ...}
    audit_send_repl
    ecryptfs-kthrea
    vfio-irqfd-clea
    jbd2/nvme0n1p2-
    ...

We can shorten these names to work around this problem, but it may be
not applied to all of the truncated kthreads.  Take 'jbd2/nvme0n1p2-'
for example, it is a nice name, and it is not a good idea to shorten it.

One possible way to fix this issue is extending the task comm size, but
as task->comm is used in lots of places, that may cause some potential
buffer overflows.  Another more conservative approach is introducing a
new pointer to store kthread's full name if it is truncated, which won't
introduce too much overhead as it is in the non-critical path.  Finally
we make a dicision to use the second approach.  See also the discussions
in this thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211101060419.4682-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com/

After this change, the full name of these truncated kthreads will be
displayed via /proc/[pid]/comm:

    rcu_tasks_kthread
    rcu_tasks_rude_kthread
    rcu_tasks_trace_kthread
    poll_mpt3sas0_statu
    ext4-rsv-conversion
    xfs-reclaim/sdf1
    xfs-blockgc/sdf1
    xfs-inodegc/sdf1
    audit_send_reply
    ecryptfs-kthread
    vfio-irqfd-cleanup
    jbd2/nvme0n1p2-8

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211120112850.46047-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Miroslaw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-01-20 08:52:53 +02:00
..
array.c kthread: dynamically allocate memory to store kthread's full name 2022-01-20 08:52:53 +02:00
base.c proc: convert the return type of proc_fd_access_allowed() to be boolean 2022-01-20 08:52:52 +02:00
bootconfig.c bootconfig: Change array value to use child node 2021-06-10 13:38:25 -04:00
cmdline.c
consoles.c
cpuinfo.c proc/cpuinfo: switch to ->read_iter 2020-11-06 10:05:18 -08:00
devices.c block: move block-related definitions out of fs.h 2020-06-24 09:16:02 -06:00
fd.c procfs/dmabuf: add inode number to /proc/*/fdinfo 2021-07-01 11:06:04 -07:00
fd.h fs: make helpers idmap mount aware 2021-01-24 14:27:20 +01:00
generic.c proc: save LOC in __xlate_proc_name() 2021-05-06 19:24:11 -07:00
inode.c proc: delete redundant subset=pid check 2021-05-06 19:24:11 -07:00
internal.h fs: make helpers idmap mount aware 2021-01-24 14:27:20 +01:00
interrupts.c
Kconfig treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help' 2020-06-14 01:57:21 +09:00
kcore.c fs/proc/kcore: use page_offline_(freeze|thaw) 2021-06-30 20:47:28 -07:00
kmsg.c proc: faster open/read/close with "permanent" files 2020-04-07 10:43:42 -07:00
loadavg.c sched: Make nr_running() return 32-bit value 2021-05-12 21:34:14 +02:00
Makefile proc: bootconfig: Add /proc/bootconfig to show boot config list 2020-01-13 13:19:39 -05:00
meminfo.c mm: memcontrol: convert NR_FILE_PMDMAPPED account to pages 2021-02-24 13:38:29 -08:00
namespaces.c Merge branch 'work.openat2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-01-29 11:20:24 -08:00
nommu.c mm: don't include asm/pgtable.h if linux/mm.h is already included 2020-06-09 09:39:13 -07:00
page.c mm: Add PG_arch_2 page flag 2020-09-04 12:46:06 +01:00
proc_net.c fs: make helpers idmap mount aware 2021-01-24 14:27:20 +01:00
proc_sysctl.c sysctl: remove redundant ret assignment 2022-01-20 08:52:52 +02:00
proc_tty.c
root.c fs: make helpers idmap mount aware 2021-01-24 14:27:20 +01:00
self.c Revert "proc: don't allow async path resolution of /proc/self components" 2021-02-23 20:32:11 -07:00
softirqs.c
stat.c fs/proc/uptime.c: Fix idle time reporting in /proc/uptime 2021-10-05 15:51:35 +02:00
task_mmu.c mm/smaps: simplify shmem handling of pte holes 2021-11-06 13:30:33 -07:00
task_nommu.c mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
thread_self.c Revert "proc: don't allow async path resolution of /proc/thread-self components" 2021-02-23 20:32:11 -07:00
uptime.c fs/proc/uptime.c: Fix idle time reporting in /proc/uptime 2021-10-05 15:51:35 +02:00
util.c
version.c
vmcore.c proc/vmcore: don't fake reading zeroes on surprise vmcore_cb unregistration 2022-01-20 08:52:52 +02:00