Commit 6986ce24fc00 ("kthread: dynamically allocate memory to store kthread's full name"), added 'full_name' in parallel to 'comm' for kthread names. Now that we have added 'full_name' added to 'task_struct' itself, drop the additional 'full_name' entry from 'struct kthread' and also its usage. Signed-off-by: Bhupesh <bhupesh@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/kthread.c | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c index 5dc5b0d7238e..46fe19b7ef76 100644 --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -66,8 +66,6 @@ struct kthread { #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP struct cgroup_subsys_state *blkcg_css; #endif - /* To store the full name if task comm is truncated. */ - char *full_name; struct task_struct *task; struct list_head hotplug_node; struct cpumask *preferred_affinity; @@ -108,12 +106,12 @@ void get_kthread_comm(char *buf, size_t buf_size, struct task_struct *tsk) { struct kthread *kthread = to_kthread(tsk); - if (!kthread || !kthread->full_name) { + if (!kthread || !tsk->full_name) { strscpy(buf, tsk->comm, buf_size); return; } - strscpy_pad(buf, kthread->full_name, buf_size); + strscpy_pad(buf, tsk->full_name, buf_size); } bool set_kthread_struct(struct task_struct *p) @@ -153,7 +151,6 @@ void free_kthread_struct(struct task_struct *k) WARN_ON_ONCE(kthread->blkcg_css); #endif k->worker_private = NULL; - kfree(kthread->full_name); kfree(kthread); } @@ -430,7 +427,7 @@ static int kthread(void *_create) kthread_exit(-EINTR); } - self->full_name = create->full_name; + self->task->full_name = create->full_name; self->threadfn = threadfn; self->data = data; -- 2.38.1