Re: [PATCH 1/2] treewide: fix memory corruptions when TASK_COMM_LEN != 16

2012-02-23 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Thursday 2012-02-23 18:30, Andrew Morton wrote: > >Teach ps(1) to look in /proc/pid/status for kernel threads? To what end? The name in /proc/pid/status was also limited to TASK_COMM_LEN. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majo

Re: [PATCH 1/2] treewide: fix memory corruptions when TASK_COMM_LEN != 16

2012-02-23 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:19:28 +0100 (CET) Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Thursday 2012-02-23 10:57, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> > But there's more, > >> > >> 24931 ?S 0:00 \_ [btrfs-endio-met] >\_ [kconservative/5] >\_ [e

Re: [PATCH 1/2] treewide: fix memory corruptions when TASK_COMM_LEN != 16

2012-02-23 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Thursday 2012-02-23 10:57, Andrew Morton wrote: >> But there's more, >> >> 24931 ?S 0:00 \_ [btrfs-endio-met] \_ [kconservative/5] \_ [ext4-dio-unwrit] >> >> [with a wondersome patch:] $ grep Name /proc/{29431,29432}/

Re: [PATCH 1/2] treewide: fix memory corruptions when TASK_COMM_LEN != 16

2012-02-23 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:09:33 +0100 (CET) Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Wednesday 2012-02-22 21:58, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:48:08 +0100 (CET) > >Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > >> task: provide a larger task command buffer > > > > > > > >Why are we bothering ourselves about th