Re: [PATCH v2] selftests: prctl: Add new prctl test for PR_SET_NAME

[Osama Muhammad]

Hi,

Yes, I did install the latest kernel headers and TASK_COMM_LEN is not
accessible in userspace.

I looked into the test which uses TASK_COMM_LEN but the test defines
it in its own header file.

Example:  https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/pyperf.h#L13

TASK_COMM_LEN is defined in include/linux/sched.h, but this header
file is not exposed to userspace.

TASK_COMM_LEN is not defined in /include/uapi/linux/sched.h which is
exposed to userspace kernel headers.
Please find the link to the header file exposed to user space :-
-https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.15.116/source/include/uapi/linux/sched.h

As for arm64/abi/tpidr2.c It includes linux/sched.h which will be
/include/uapi/linux/sched.h because the user space program is
including it.
So it also cannot use TASK_COMM_LEN directly.

Regards,
Osama

On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 at 02:56, Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 6/10/23 07:01, Osama Muhammad wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I looked into it and tried to use TASK_COMM_LEN in the test. Even
> > though I included "linux/sched.h '', I was not able to compile the
> > test because it couldn't find it in the header file.
> > I dived deep into the issue and turns out header file mapped in
> > /usr/include/linux/sched.h is actually mapped to
> > /include/uapi/linux/sched.h[1] in linux source,
> > where TASK_COMM_LEN is not even defined. Instead TASK_COMM_LEN is
> > defined in /include/linux/sched.h which is not mapped to any header
> > files in
> > userspace(/(/usr/include/linux).
> > I also tried to find the TASK_COM_LEN in /usr/include/linux/ but I
> > couldn't find it. Following are the search results.
> > grep -rnw '/usr/include/linux/' -e 'TASK_COMM_LEN"
> > RESULTS OF COMMAND :- /usr/include/linux/taskstats.h:38:#define
> > TS_COMM_LEN 32 /* should be >= TASK_COMM_LEN
> > Based on this information, I have two questions:
> > 1. Would this require a fix to move 'TASK_COMM_LEN' macro from
> > /include/linux/sched.h to UAPI headers /include/uapi/linux/sched.h.
> > 2. Is there any other way to access TASK_COMM_LEN in the selftest that
> > I'm not aware of?
> >
> > [1]:-https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.15.116/source/include/uapi/linux/sched.h
> >
>
> The best source is Linux mainline.
>
> Take a look at test files that include linux/sched.h
>
> arm64/abi/tpidr2.c is one of them.
>
> Did you install headers before compiling the test?
>   make headers_install
>
> thanks,
> -- Shuah
>
>