[15/55] fs/binfmt_elf: replace open-coded string copy with get_task_comm

Commit Message

Andrew Morton Jan. 20, 2022, 2:08 a.m. UTC

From: Yafang Shao <[e-mail]>
Subject: fs/binfmt_elf: replace open-coded string copy with get_task_comm

It is better to use get_task_comm() instead of the open coded string copy
as we do in other places.

struct elf_prpsinfo is used to dump the task information in userspace
coredump or kernel vmcore. Below is the verification of vmcore,

crash> ps
   PID    PPID  CPU       TASK        ST  %MEM     VSZ    RSS  COMM
      0      0   0  ffffffff9d21a940  RU   0.0       0      0  [swapper/0]
>     0      0   1  ffffa09e40f85e80  RU   0.0       0      0  [swapper/1]
>     0      0   2  ffffa09e40f81f80  RU   0.0       0      0  [swapper/2]
>     0      0   3  ffffa09e40f83f00  RU   0.0       0      0  [swapper/3]
>     0      0   4  ffffa09e40f80000  RU   0.0       0      0  [swapper/4]
>     0      0   5  ffffa09e40f89f80  RU   0.0       0      0  [swapper/5]
      0      0   6  ffffa09e40f8bf00  RU   0.0       0      0  [swapper/6]
>     0      0   7  ffffa09e40f88000  RU   0.0       0      0  [swapper/7]
>     0      0   8  ffffa09e40f8de80  RU   0.0       0      0  [swapper/8]
>     0      0   9  ffffa09e40f95e80  RU   0.0       0      0  [swapper/9]
>     0      0  10  ffffa09e40f91f80  RU   0.0       0      0  [swapper/10]
>     0      0  11  ffffa09e40f93f00  RU   0.0       0      0  [swapper/11]
>     0      0  12  ffffa09e40f90000  RU   0.0       0      0  [swapper/12]
>     0      0  13  ffffa09e40f9bf00  RU   0.0       0      0  [swapper/13]
>     0      0  14  ffffa09e40f98000  RU   0.0       0      0  [swapper/14]
>     0      0  15  ffffa09e40f9de80  RU   0.0       0      0  [swapper/15]

It works well as expected.

Some comments are added to explain why we use the hard-coded 16.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]
Suggested-by: Kees Cook <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <[e-mail]>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <[e-mail]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[e-mail]>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <[e-mail]>
Cc: Michal Miroslaw <[e-mail]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[e-mail]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[e-mail]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[e-mail]>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <[e-mail]>
Cc: Al Viro <[e-mail]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[e-mail]>
Cc: Petr Mladek <[e-mail]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[e-mail]>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <[e-mail]>
Cc: Dennis Dalessandro <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[e-mail]>
---

 fs/binfmt_elf.c                |    2 +-
 include/linux/elfcore-compat.h |    5 +++++
 include/linux/elfcore.h        |    5 +++++
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Patch

--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c~fs-binfmt_elf-replace-open-coded-string-copy-with-get_task_comm
+++ a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -1585,7 +1585,7 @@  static int fill_psinfo(struct elf_prpsin
 	SET_UID(psinfo->pr_uid, from_kuid_munged(cred->user_ns, cred->uid));
 	SET_GID(psinfo->pr_gid, from_kgid_munged(cred->user_ns, cred->gid));
 	rcu_read_unlock();
-	strncpy(psinfo->pr_fname, p->comm, sizeof(psinfo->pr_fname));
+	get_task_comm(psinfo->pr_fname, p);
 
 	return 0;
 }
--- a/include/linux/elfcore-compat.h~fs-binfmt_elf-replace-open-coded-string-copy-with-get_task_comm
+++ a/include/linux/elfcore-compat.h
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@  struct compat_elf_prpsinfo
 	__compat_uid_t			pr_uid;
 	__compat_gid_t			pr_gid;
 	compat_pid_t			pr_pid, pr_ppid, pr_pgrp, pr_sid;
+	/*
+	 * The hard-coded 16 is derived from TASK_COMM_LEN, but it can't be
+	 * changed as it is exposed to userspace. We'd better make it hard-coded
+	 * here.
+	 */
 	char				pr_fname[16];
 	char				pr_psargs[ELF_PRARGSZ];
 };
--- a/include/linux/elfcore.h~fs-binfmt_elf-replace-open-coded-string-copy-with-get_task_comm
+++ a/include/linux/elfcore.h
@@ -65,6 +65,11 @@  struct elf_prpsinfo
 	__kernel_gid_t	pr_gid;
 	pid_t	pr_pid, pr_ppid, pr_pgrp, pr_sid;
 	/* Lots missing */
+	/*
+	 * The hard-coded 16 is derived from TASK_COMM_LEN, but it can't be
+	 * changed as it is exposed to userspace. We'd better make it hard-coded
+	 * here.
+	 */
 	char	pr_fname[16];	/* filename of executable */
 	char	pr_psargs[ELF_PRARGSZ];	/* initial part of arg list */
 };