On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 02:37:31PM -0600, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> From: Tycho Andersen <[email protected]>
> 
> 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.
> 
> Change exec path to fix up /proc/pid/comm in the case where we have
> allocated one of these synthetic paths in bprm_init(). This way the actual
> exec machinery is unchanged, but cosmetically the comm looks reasonable to
> admins investigating things.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <[email protected]>
> Suggested-by: Zbigniew JÄ™drzejewski-Szmek <[email protected]>
> CC: Aleksa Sarai <[email protected]>
> Link: https://github.com/uapi-group/kernel-features#set-comm-field-before-exec
> ---

We finally went full circle back to what was originally proposed :)

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>

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