set_task_comm: kill the pointless memset() + wmb()

set_task_comm() does memset() + wmb() before strlcpy().  This buys
nothing and to add to the confusion, the comment is wrong.

- We do not need memset() to be "safe from non-terminating string
  reads", the final char is always zero and we never change it.

- wmb() is paired with nothing, it cannot prevent from printing
  the mixture of the old/new data unless the reader takes the lock.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 87e731f020fb..260f89f66651 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1027,17 +1027,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_task_comm);
 void set_task_comm(struct task_struct *tsk, char *buf)
 {
 	task_lock(tsk);
-
 	trace_task_rename(tsk, buf);
-
-	/*
-	 * Threads may access current->comm without holding
-	 * the task lock, so write the string carefully.
-	 * Readers without a lock may see incomplete new
-	 * names but are safe from non-terminating string reads.
-	 */
-	memset(tsk->comm, 0, TASK_COMM_LEN);
-	wmb();
 	strlcpy(tsk->comm, buf, sizeof(tsk->comm));
 	task_unlock(tsk);
 	perf_event_comm(tsk);