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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	"Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@kernel.org>,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>, Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/capability.c get_task_comm compile error (MMOTM)
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:15:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071111141510.GA29126@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711110101.lAB110LV017867@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>


* Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:

> Small patch below fixes compile error.

> +			char name[sizeof(current->comm)];
>  			warned++;
>  			printk(KERN_INFO
>  			       "warning: process `%s' sets w/ old libcap\n",
> -			       get_task_comm(current));
> +			       get_task_comm(name, current));

that's buggy - get_task_comm() returns void.

the proper fix would be to first do a get_task_comm() then pass in 
'name' as an argument to printk.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-11 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-11  1:01 [PATCH] kernel/capability.c get_task_comm compile error (MMOTM) Erez Zadok
2007-11-11 14:15 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-11-11 17:11   ` Erez Zadok
2007-11-11 20:44     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-11-11 19:30   ` Andrew Morton

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