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-rw-r--r--src/basic/process-util.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/basic/process-util.c b/src/basic/process-util.c
index 4c05f16db5..8db7f462d7 100644
--- a/src/basic/process-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/process-util.c
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@
#include "user-util.h"
#include "utf8.h"
+/* The kernel limits userspace processes to TASK_COMM_LEN (16 bytes), but allows higher values for its own
+ * workers, e.g. "kworker/u9:3-kcryptd/253:0". Let's pick a fixed smallish limit that will work for the kernel.
+ */
+#define COMM_MAX_LEN 128
+
static int get_process_state(pid_t pid) {
const char *p;
char state;
@@ -82,7 +87,7 @@ int get_process_comm(pid_t pid, char **ret) {
assert(ret);
assert(pid >= 0);
- escaped = new(char, TASK_COMM_LEN);
+ escaped = new(char, COMM_MAX_LEN);
if (!escaped)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -95,7 +100,7 @@ int get_process_comm(pid_t pid, char **ret) {
return r;
/* Escape unprintable characters, just in case, but don't grow the string beyond the underlying size */
- cellescape(escaped, TASK_COMM_LEN, comm);
+ cellescape(escaped, COMM_MAX_LEN, comm);
*ret = TAKE_PTR(escaped);
return 0;
@@ -209,7 +214,7 @@ int rename_process(const char name[]) {
* can use PR_SET_NAME, which sets the thread name for the calling thread. */
if (prctl(PR_SET_NAME, name) < 0)
log_debug_errno(errno, "PR_SET_NAME failed: %m");
- if (l >= TASK_COMM_LEN) /* Linux process names can be 15 chars at max */
+ if (l >= TASK_COMM_LEN) /* Linux userspace process names can be 15 chars at max */
truncated = true;
/* Second step, change glibc's ID of the process name. */