Re: [PATCH 1/1] coredump: use task comm instead of (unknown)

[Tetsuo Handa]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> > char *strncpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t n)
> > {
> > 	size_t len = __strnend(src, n) - src;

If src was overwritten by prctl(PR_SET_NAME) at this moment (i.e. after len was
calculated),

> > 	__builtin_memset(dest + len, 0, n - len);
> > 	__builtin_memcpy(dest, src, len);

won't this result in inconsistent copying of src when length of src has changed
by prctl(PR_SET_NAME)?

> > 	return dest;
> > }

This strncpy() assumes that length of src won't change within the function.
I thought prctl(PR_SET_NAME) might break such assumption.
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