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authorLorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>2016-10-13 01:20:20 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-19 08:31:25 -0700
commitf307ab6dcea03f9d8e4d70508fd7d1ca57cfa7f9 (patch)
tree94a96ebae9957cf1252231a69f8904796aa2563e /arch/ia64/kernel
parent6347e8d5bcce33fc36e651901efefbe2c93a43ef (diff)
downloadlinux-f307ab6dcea03f9d8e4d70508fd7d1ca57cfa7f9.tar.bz2
mm: replace access_process_vm() write parameter with gup_flags
This removes the 'write' argument from access_process_vm() and replaces it with 'gup_flags' as use of this function previously silently implied FOLL_FORCE, whereas after this patch callers explicitly pass this flag. We make this explicit as use of FOLL_FORCE can result in surprising behaviour (and hence bugs) within the mm subsystem. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/ia64/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c14
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c
index 6f54d511cc50..31aa8c0f68e1 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ ia64_peek (struct task_struct *child, struct switch_stack *child_stack,
return 0;
}
}
- copied = access_process_vm(child, addr, &ret, sizeof(ret), 0);
+ copied = access_process_vm(child, addr, &ret, sizeof(ret), FOLL_FORCE);
if (copied != sizeof(ret))
return -EIO;
*val = ret;
@@ -489,7 +489,8 @@ ia64_poke (struct task_struct *child, struct switch_stack *child_stack,
*ia64_rse_skip_regs(krbs, regnum) = val;
}
}
- } else if (access_process_vm(child, addr, &val, sizeof(val), 1)
+ } else if (access_process_vm(child, addr, &val, sizeof(val),
+ FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE)
!= sizeof(val))
return -EIO;
return 0;
@@ -543,7 +544,8 @@ ia64_sync_user_rbs (struct task_struct *child, struct switch_stack *sw,
ret = ia64_peek(child, sw, user_rbs_end, addr, &val);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
- if (access_process_vm(child, addr, &val, sizeof(val), 1)
+ if (access_process_vm(child, addr, &val, sizeof(val),
+ FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE)
!= sizeof(val))
return -EIO;
}
@@ -559,7 +561,8 @@ ia64_sync_kernel_rbs (struct task_struct *child, struct switch_stack *sw,
/* now copy word for word from user rbs to kernel rbs: */
for (addr = user_rbs_start; addr < user_rbs_end; addr += 8) {
- if (access_process_vm(child, addr, &val, sizeof(val), 0)
+ if (access_process_vm(child, addr, &val, sizeof(val),
+ FOLL_FORCE)
!= sizeof(val))
return -EIO;
@@ -1156,7 +1159,8 @@ arch_ptrace (struct task_struct *child, long request,
case PTRACE_PEEKTEXT:
case PTRACE_PEEKDATA:
/* read word at location addr */
- if (access_process_vm(child, addr, &data, sizeof(data), 0)
+ if (access_process_vm(child, addr, &data, sizeof(data),
+ FOLL_FORCE)
!= sizeof(data))
return -EIO;
/* ensure return value is not mistaken for error code */