[PATCH v4 8/8] uprobes: uprobe_warn should use passed task

Masami Hiramatsu (Google) mhiramat at kernel.org
Thu Jul 24 01:24:17 PDT 2025


On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 23:37:40 -0500
Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton at arm.com> wrote:

> uprobe_warn() is passed a task structure, yet its using current. For
> the most part this shouldn't matter, but since a task structure is
> provided, lets use it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton at arm.com>

Looks good to me. BTW, is it a bug? This is introduced by
commit 248d3a7b2f10 ("uprobes: Change uprobe_copy_process()
to dup return_instances"), but there is no excuse why it
uses current instead of @t.

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat at kernel.org>

Thanks,

> ---
>  kernel/events/uprobes.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> index 4c965ba77f9f..2dc4fed837a2 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ struct xol_area {
>  
>  static void uprobe_warn(struct task_struct *t, const char *msg)
>  {
> -	pr_warn("uprobe: %s:%d failed to %s\n", current->comm, current->pid, msg);
> +	pr_warn("uprobe: %s:%d failed to %s\n", t->comm, t->pid, msg);
>  }
>  
>  /*
> -- 
> 2.50.1
> 


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat at kernel.org>



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