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-rw-r--r--kernel/kthread.c8
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.