get rid of __get_task_comm()

Patch series "Improve the copy of task comm", v8.

Using {memcpy,strncpy,strcpy,kstrdup} to copy the task comm relies on the
length of task comm.  Changes in the task comm could result in a
destination string that is overflow.  Therefore, we should explicitly
ensure the destination string is always NUL-terminated, regardless of the
task comm.  This approach will facilitate future extensions to the task
comm.

As suggested by Linus [0], we can identify all relevant code with the
following git grep command:

  git grep 'memcpy.*->comm\>'
  git grep 'kstrdup.*->comm\>'
  git grep 'strncpy.*->comm\>'
  git grep 'strcpy.*->comm\>'

PATCH #2~#4:   memcpy
PATCH #5~#6:   kstrdup
PATCH #7:      strcpy

Please note that strncpy() is not included in this series as it is being
tracked by another effort. [1]


This patch (of 7):

We want to eliminate the use of __get_task_comm() for the following
reasons:

- The task_lock() is unnecessary
  Quoted from Linus [0]:
  : Since user space can randomly change their names anyway, using locking
  : was always wrong for readers (for writers it probably does make sense
  : to have some lock - although practically speaking nobody cares there
  : either, but at least for a writer some kind of race could have
  : long-term mixed results

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241007144911.27693-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241007144911.27693-2-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wivfrF0_zvf+oj6==Sh=-npJooP8chLPEfaFV0oNYTTBA@mail.gmail.com [0]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whWtUC-AjmGJveAETKOMeMFSTwKwu99v7+b6AyHMmaDFA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjAmmHUg6vho1KjzQi2=psR30+CogFd4aXrThr2gsiS4g@mail.gmail.com/ [0]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 [1]
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Matus Jokay <matus.jokay@stuba.sk>
Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index bb343136ddd0..67718d5591dd 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1121,9 +1121,12 @@ struct task_struct {
 	/*
 	 * executable name, excluding path.
 	 *
-	 * - normally initialized setup_new_exec()
-	 * - access it with [gs]et_task_comm()
-	 * - lock it with task_lock()
+	 * - normally initialized begin_new_exec()
+	 * - set it with set_task_comm()
+	 *   - strscpy_pad() to ensure it is always NUL-terminated and
+	 *     zero-padded
+	 *   - task_lock() to ensure the operation is atomic and the name is
+	 *     fully updated.
 	 */
 	char				comm[TASK_COMM_LEN];
 
@@ -1938,10 +1941,23 @@ static inline void set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, const char *from)
 	__set_task_comm(tsk, from, false);
 }
 
-extern char *__get_task_comm(char *to, size_t len, struct task_struct *tsk);
+/*
+ * - Why not use task_lock()?
+ *   User space can randomly change their names anyway, so locking for readers
+ *   doesn't make sense. For writers, locking is probably necessary, as a race
+ *   condition could lead to long-term mixed results.
+ *   The strscpy_pad() in __set_task_comm() can ensure that the task comm is
+ *   always NUL-terminated and zero-padded. Therefore the race condition between
+ *   reader and writer is not an issue.
+ *
+ * - BUILD_BUG_ON() can help prevent the buf from being truncated.
+ *   Since the callers don't perform any return value checks, this safeguard is
+ *   necessary.
+ */
 #define get_task_comm(buf, tsk) ({			\
-	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(buf) != TASK_COMM_LEN);	\
-	__get_task_comm(buf, sizeof(buf), tsk);		\
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(buf) < TASK_COMM_LEN);	\
+	strscpy_pad(buf, (tsk)->comm);			\
+	buf;						\
 })
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP