Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:44:19 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kernel/capability.c get_task_comm compile error (MMOTM) |
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* Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
> Ingo, I don't see how it can return NULL. This is what get_task_comm > looks like in MMOTM-2007-11-10-19-05: > > char *get_task_comm(char *buf, struct task_struct *tsk) > { > /* buf must be at least sizeof(tsk->comm) in size */ > task_lock(tsk); > strncpy(buf, tsk->comm, sizeof(tsk->comm)); > task_unlock(tsk); > return buf; > } > > The only way it'd return NULL is if a null buf was passed, in which > case the strncpy will oops first.
hm, here it says in include/linux/sched.h:
extern void get_task_comm(char *to, struct task_struct *tsk);
HEAD ecd744eec3a.
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