[PATCH 3/3] drm/msm: Add a way to override processes comm/cmdline

[Rob Clark]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 12:19 AM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 08:03:59AM -0700, Rob Clark wrote:
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gpu.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gpu.c
> > > > index 4ec62b601adc..68f3f8ade76d 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gpu.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/msm_gpu.c
> > > > @@ -364,14 +364,21 @@ static void retire_submits(struct msm_gpu *gpu);
> > > >
> > > >  static void get_comm_cmdline(struct msm_gem_submit *submit, char **comm, char **cmd)
> > > >  {
> > > > +     struct msm_file_private *ctx = submit->queue->ctx;
> > > >       struct task_struct *task;
> > > >
> > > > +     *comm = kstrdup(ctx->comm, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > > +     *cmd  = kstrdup(ctx->cmdline, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > > +
> > > >       task = get_pid_task(submit->pid, PIDTYPE_PID);
> > > >       if (!task)
> > > >               return;
> > > >
> > > > -     *comm = kstrdup(task->comm, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > > -     *cmd = kstrdup_quotable_cmdline(task, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > > +     if (!*comm)
> > > > +             *comm = kstrdup(task->comm, GFP_KERNEL);
> > >
> > > What?
> > >
> > > If the first allocation failed, then this one is going to fail as well.
> > > Just return -ENOMEM.  Or maybe this is meant to be checking for an empty
> > > string?
> >
> > fwiw, if ctx->comm is NULL, the kstrdup() will return NULL, so this
> > isn't intended to deal with OoM, but the case that comm and/or cmdline
> > is not overridden.
>
> Ah, I should have thought about that.  Thanks!

np, I realized it was fairly non-obvious so I added a comment in v2 to
hopefully make it more clear

BR,
-R

> regards,
> dan carpenter
>