From: "André Almeida" <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
willy@infradead.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>,
andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com, arnaldo.melo@gmail.com,
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-dev@igalia.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
"André Almeida" <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 5/6] prctl: Add support for long user thread names
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:54:38 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260717-tonyk-long_name-v4-5-1fedfc870d21@igalia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260717-tonyk-long_name-v4-0-1fedfc870d21@igalia.com>
Add support for getting and setting long user thread names with
PR_{SET,GET}_EXT_NAME.
Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
---
include/linux/sched.h | 2 +-
include/uapi/linux/prctl.h | 3 +++
kernel/sys.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 6a48517f01cc..0f1b40a5dbc6 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -2018,7 +2018,7 @@ extern void kick_process(struct task_struct *tsk);
extern void __set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, const char *from, bool exec);
#define set_task_comm(tsk, from) ({ \
- BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(from) != TASK_COMM_LEN); \
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(from) < TASK_COMM_LEN); \
__set_task_comm(tsk, from, false); \
})
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h b/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h
index b6ec6f693719..a07f8edadd65 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@
#define PR_SET_NAME 15 /* Set process name */
#define PR_GET_NAME 16 /* Get process name */
+#define PR_SET_EXT_NAME 17 /* Set extended process name */
+#define PR_GET_EXT_NAME 18 /* Get extended process name */
+
/* Get/set process endian */
#define PR_GET_ENDIAN 19
#define PR_SET_ENDIAN 20
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 3c37b5c1c072..26d5026f9590 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -2535,7 +2535,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(prctl, int, option, unsigned long, arg2, unsigned long, arg3,
unsigned long, arg4, unsigned long, arg5)
{
struct task_struct *me = current;
- unsigned char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN];
+ unsigned char comm[TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN];
long error;
error = security_task_prctl(option, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5);
@@ -2613,6 +2613,19 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(prctl, int, option, unsigned long, arg2, unsigned long, arg3,
if (copy_to_user((char __user *)arg2, comm, TASK_COMM_LEN))
return -EFAULT;
break;
+ case PR_SET_EXT_NAME:
+ comm[TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN - 1] = 0;
+ if (strncpy_from_user(comm, (char __user *)arg2,
+ TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN - 1) < 0)
+ return -EFAULT;
+ set_task_comm(me, comm);
+ proc_comm_connector(me);
+ break;
+ case PR_GET_EXT_NAME:
+ strscpy_pad(comm, me->comm, TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN);
+ if (copy_to_user((char __user *)arg2, comm, TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ break;
case PR_GET_ENDIAN:
error = GET_ENDIAN(me, arg2);
break;
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-17 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-17 13:54 [PATCH v4 0/6] sched: Add support for long task name André Almeida
2026-07-17 13:54 ` [PATCH v4 1/6] treewide: Get rid of get_task_comm() André Almeida
2026-07-17 13:54 ` [PATCH v4 2/6] treewide: Replace memcpy(..., current->comm) with copy_task_comm() André Almeida
2026-07-17 13:54 ` [PATCH v4 3/6] lib/string_kunit: Add test for copy_task_comm() André Almeida
2026-07-17 13:54 ` [PATCH v4 4/6] sched: Extend task command name with TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN André Almeida
2026-07-17 13:54 ` André Almeida [this message]
2026-07-17 13:54 ` [PATCH v4 6/6] selftests: prctl: Add test for long thread names André Almeida
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