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Date:   Tue, 9 Nov 2021 10:28:19 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To:     Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] task comm cleanups
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On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 08:38:33AM +0000, Yafang Shao wrote:
> This patchset is part of the patchset "extend task comm from 16 to 24"[1].
> Now we have different opinion that dynamically allocates memory to store 
> kthread's long name into a separate pointer, so I decide to take the useful
> cleanups apart from the original patchset and send it separately[2].
> 
> These useful cleanups can make the usage around task comm less
> error-prone. Furthermore, it will be useful if we want to extend task
> comm in the future.
> 
> All of the patches except patch #4 have either a reviewed-by or a
> acked-by now. I have verfied that the vmcore/crash works well after
> patch #4.
> 
> [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211101060419.4682-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com/
> [2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CALOAHbAx55AUo3bm8ZepZSZnw7A08cvKPdPyNTf=E_tPqmw5hw@mail.gmail.com/

Thanks for collecting this! It all looks good to me.

Andrew, can you take these?

-Kees

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Kees Cook