From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1D30C6FA82 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2022 19:24:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231429AbiITTYt (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:24:49 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:41766 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231390AbiITTYr (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2022 15:24:47 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk (zeniv.linux.org.uk [IPv6:2a03:a000:7:0:5054:ff:fe1c:15ff]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1EDD0B84D; Tue, 20 Sep 2022 12:24:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linux.org.uk; s=zeniv-20220401; h=Sender:In-Reply-To:Content-Type: MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=TPqwlRNwuUqV78TrpRLaS4sbUecgUF5r7GiXn2a7L1Q=; b=hAMJs5X93SALDRvjC0jFswmUv1 mRvdmTGGxOBZ1BvU+7YzDKbGJPK4cMjTqfgfRD8K3kNI3gqh/zmCEdGUDBwhPeup7EjVvWkz5mBt6 XTR0WBKlPeyfSb61UoQP5xvjMiOSVnpWAr0Af+bxEkLkPwmEXnqIIx/N6joNhFVKtbIiSdVR5BO9g J2YQTW/3aj8XquulrrmMK+c/CnOrFruUKhb+m7RbBNYwyCSAkZhOyEE7DzN5jDzUH4+lYURALbLzw Y29AVkQ6JwRLJ/AEqc/sRI7Gs4UMmxwnHQB2SXNjT5MeCisAm/oJ8QZIvsAPqhHH5gwdIgwtcilFp 5wKj1vEA==; Received: from viro by zeniv.linux.org.uk with local (Exim 4.96 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1oair2-001sIE-1H; Tue, 20 Sep 2022 19:24:24 +0000 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 20:24:24 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Ren Zhijie Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, keescook@chromium.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tanghui20@huawei.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] exec: Force binary name when argv is empty Message-ID: References: <20220920120812.231417-1-renzhijie2@huawei.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20220920120812.231417-1-renzhijie2@huawei.com> Sender: Al Viro Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 08:08:12PM +0800, Ren Zhijie wrote: > From: Hui Tang > > First run './execv-main execv-child', there is empty in 'COMMAND' column > when run 'ps -u'. > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY [...] TIME COMMAND > root 368 0.3 0.0 4388 764 ttyS0 0:00 ./execv-main > root 369 0.6 0.0 4520 812 ttyS0 0:00 > > The program 'execv-main' as follows: > > int main(int argc, char **argv) > { > char *execv_argv[] = {NULL}; > pid_t pid = fork(); > > if (pid == 0) { > execv(argv[1], execv_argv); > } else if (pid > 0) { > wait(NULL); > } > return 0; > } > > So replace empty string ("") added with the name of binary > when calling execve with a NULL argv. > > Fixes: dcd46d897adb ("exec: Force single empty string when argv is empty") I don't see the point, to be honest... You've passed BS argv to execve(), why would you expect anything pretty from ps(1)? IOW, where's the bug you are fixing?