Re: [PATCH] proc: Don't allow empty /proc/PID/cmdline for user tasks

[Alexey Dobriyan]

> Kernel threads have empty /proc/PID/cmdline and some userland tools
> including ps(1) and older versions of systemd use this to detect
> kernel threads.

Those tools are broken. Systemd is fixed, see
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/basic/process-util.c#L442

Empty /proc/*/cmdline is perfectly fine as long as

	execve(filename, NULL, NULL)

is fine.

> However, any userland program can emulate the
> behavior by making its argvs unavailable and trick the affected tools
> into thinking that the task is a kernel thread.

Or it can set ->comm to "[kthreadd] and cmdline to "[kthreadd]".