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From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.pizza>
Cc: "Kees Cook" <kees@kernel.org>,
	"Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek" <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>,
	"Aleksa Sarai" <cyphar@cyphar.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	"Tycho Andersen" <tandersen@netflix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] exec: fix up /proc/pid/comm in the execveat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) case
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 15:10:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <173041263505.1781237.9706368369948860422.b4-ty@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241030203732.248767-1-tycho@tycho.pizza>

On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:37:31 -0600, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> Zbigniew mentioned at Linux Plumber's that systemd is interested in
> switching to execveat() for service execution, but can't, because the
> contents of /proc/pid/comm are the file descriptor which was used,
> instead of the path to the binary. This makes the output of tools like
> top and ps useless, especially in a world where most fds are opened
> CLOEXEC so the number is truly meaningless.
> 
> [...]

Applied to for-next/execve, thanks!

[1/2] exec: fix up /proc/pid/comm in the execveat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) case
      https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/7bdc6fc85c9a
[2/2] selftests/exec: add a test for execveat()'s comm
      https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/bd104872311a

Take care,

-- 
Kees Cook



  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-11-01 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-30 20:37 Tycho Andersen
2024-10-30 20:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] selftests/exec: add a test for execveat()'s comm Tycho Andersen
2024-11-27 14:25   ` Mark Brown
2024-11-27 15:00     ` Tycho Andersen
2024-11-27 15:03       ` Mark Brown
2024-10-31 22:10 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2024-11-02 11:29   ` [PATCH 1/2] exec: fix up /proc/pid/comm in the execveat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) case Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2024-11-02 19:58     ` Kees Cook
2024-11-06 10:06 ` Christian Brauner

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