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fs, proc: truncate /proc/pid/comm writes to first TASK_COMM_LEN bytes
authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:28:18 +0000 (15:28 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 1 May 2013 00:04:07 +0000 (17:04 -0700)
commit654a7864cd1b0b21c7fd3ef5ecbac3f7737c64a5
tree19d176024decd5ca10601d2cf2ecc8f0e90fe84e
parent1ad49c7323783fe4dde766feb8fc81d78e216aa4
fs, proc: truncate /proc/pid/comm writes to first TASK_COMM_LEN bytes

Currently, a write to a procfs file will return the number of bytes
successfully written.  If the actual string is longer than this, the
remainder of the string will not be be written and userspace will
complete the operation by issuing additional write()s.

Hence

$ echo -n "abcdefghijklmnopqrs" > /proc/self/comm

results in

$ cat /proc/$$/comm
pqrs

since the final four bytes were written with a second write() since
TASK_COMM_LEN == 16.  This is obviously an undesired result and not
equivalent to prctl(PR_SET_NAME).  The implementation should not need to
know the definition of TASK_COMM_LEN.

This patch truncates the string to the first TASK_COMM_LEN bytes and
returns the bytes written as the length of the string written so the
second write() is suppressed.

$ cat /proc/$$/comm
abcdefghijklmno

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/proc/base.c