On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 02:35:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 28 Sep 2024 14:08:31 -0700 Kees Cook <k...@kernel.org> wrote: > > > The 'comm' member will always be NUL terminated, > > Why is this? I thought this is only true if the caller holds task_lock()?
Because it's always written with strscpy_pad(). The final byte will always be NUL. (And this has been true for a very long time.) -- Kees Cook