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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/kthread.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c index 750cb8082694..486dedbd9af5 100644 --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -325,8 +325,14 @@ struct task_struct *__kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data), task = create->result; if (!IS_ERR(task)) { static const struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 0 }; + char name[TASK_COMM_LEN]; - vsnprintf(task->comm, sizeof(task->comm), namefmt, args); + /* + * task is already visible to other tasks, so updating + * COMM must be protected. + */ + vsnprintf(name, sizeof(name), namefmt, args); + set_task_comm(task, name); /* * root may have changed our (kthreadd's) priority or CPU mask. * The kernel thread should not inherit these properties. |