[PATCH 5.4 124/154] fs/procfs: fix the comment above proc_pid_wchan()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2025-04-08T12:07:45Z

From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>

[ Upstream commit 6287fbad1cd91f0c25cdc3a580499060828a8f30 ]

proc_pid_wchan() used to report kernel addresses to user space but that is
no longer the case today. Bring the comment above proc_pid_wchan() in
sync with the implementation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250319210222.1518771-1-bvanassche@acm.org
Fixes: b2f73922d119 ("fs/proc, core/debug: Don't expose absolute kernel addresses via wchan")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
fs/proc/base.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 34e15da39fdf3..d785d148e15f3 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_pid_cmdline_ops = {
#ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS
/*
* Provides a wchan file via kallsyms in a proper one-value-per-file format.
- * Returns the resolved symbol. If that fails, simply return the address.
+ * Returns the resolved symbol to user space.
*/
static int proc_pid_wchan(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
struct pid *pid, struct task_struct *task)
--
2.39.5