diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 51d3cb4e3cdfa20b2b0c4d30330c9120c9e780e5..fa142638b191cc5d83d014375c5a59a98b729015 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1207,7 +1207,8 @@ static int unshare_sighand(struct task_struct *me)
 char *__get_task_comm(char *buf, size_t buf_size, struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 	task_lock(tsk);
-	strncpy(buf, tsk->comm, buf_size);
+	/* Always NUL terminated and zero-padded */
+	strscpy_pad(buf, tsk->comm, buf_size);
 	task_unlock(tsk);
 	return buf;
 }