Quoted from Linus [0]: selinux never wanted a lock, and never wanted any kind of *consistent* result, it just wanted a *stable* result.
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.s...@gmail.com> LINK: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wivfrF0_zvf+oj6==Sh=-npjoop8chlpefafv0onyt...@mail.gmail.com/ [0] Acked-by: Paul Moore <p...@paul-moore.com> Cc: James Morris <jmor...@namei.org> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <se...@hallyn.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.w...@gmail.com> Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosn...@redhat.com> --- security/lsm_audit.c | 4 ++-- security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/security/lsm_audit.c b/security/lsm_audit.c index 849e832719e2..a922e4339dd5 100644 --- a/security/lsm_audit.c +++ b/security/lsm_audit.c @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ static void dump_common_audit_data(struct audit_buffer *ab, BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(a->u) > sizeof(void *)*2); audit_log_format(ab, " pid=%d comm=", task_tgid_nr(current)); - audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, memcpy(comm, current->comm, sizeof(comm))); + audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, __get_task_comm(comm, sizeof(comm), current)); switch (a->type) { case LSM_AUDIT_DATA_NONE: @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ static void dump_common_audit_data(struct audit_buffer *ab, char comm[sizeof(tsk->comm)]; audit_log_format(ab, " opid=%d ocomm=", pid); audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, - memcpy(comm, tsk->comm, sizeof(comm))); + __get_task_comm(comm, sizeof(comm), tsk)); } } break; diff --git a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c index e172f182b65c..a8a2ec742576 100644 --- a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c +++ b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c @@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ static ssize_t sel_write_checkreqprot(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, if (new_value) { char comm[sizeof(current->comm)]; - memcpy(comm, current->comm, sizeof(comm)); + __get_task_comm(comm, sizeof(comm), current); pr_err("SELinux: %s (%d) set checkreqprot to 1. This is no longer supported.\n", comm, current->pid); } -- 2.34.1
