[PATCH 5/7] security: Replace get_task_comm() with %pTN

Yafang Shao laoar.shao at gmail.com
Thu Dec 12 21:46:08 PST 2024


Since task->comm is guaranteed to be NUL-terminated, we can print it
directly without the need to copy it into a separate buffer. This
simplifies the code and avoids unnecessary operations.

Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao at gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees at kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris at namei.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge at hallyn.com>
---
 security/yama/yama_lsm.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
index e1a5e13ea269..4bdfa51ea6fd 100644
--- a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
+++ b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ static void report_access(const char *access, struct task_struct *target,
 				struct task_struct *agent)
 {
 	struct access_report_info *info;
-	char agent_comm[sizeof(agent->comm)];
 
 	assert_spin_locked(&target->alloc_lock); /* for target->comm */
 
@@ -85,9 +84,8 @@ static void report_access(const char *access, struct task_struct *target,
 		 * Imagine angry ranting about procfs here.
 		 */
 		pr_notice_ratelimited(
-		    "ptrace %s of \"%s\"[%d] was attempted by \"%s\"[%d]\n",
-		    access, target->comm, target->pid,
-		    get_task_comm(agent_comm, agent), agent->pid);
+		    "ptrace %s of \"%pTN\"[%d] was attempted by \"%pTN\"[%d]\n",
+		    access, target, target->pid, agent, agent->pid);
 		return;
 	}
 
-- 
2.43.5




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