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>
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