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

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Tue Dec 17 01:08:13 UTC 2024


On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 at 21:47, Yafang Shao <laoar.shao at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Since task->comm is guaranteed to be NUL-terminated, we can print it
> directly without the need to copy it into a separate buffer.

So i think we should do the "without copying into a separate buffer"
part of this series, but I do think we should just accept "%s" and
"task->comm".

IOW - getting rid of get_task_comm() is good.

But the "%pTN" pointer format ends up being unnecessary.

          Linus



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