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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/mips/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/mips/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/mips/kernel/ptrace32.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace32.c b/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace32.c
index 283b5a1967d1..7e71a4e0281b 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace32.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/ptrace32.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ long compat_arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, compat_long_t request,
break;
copied = access_process_vm(child, (u64)addrOthers, &tmp,
- sizeof(tmp), 0);
+ sizeof(tmp), FOLL_FORCE);
if (copied != sizeof(tmp))
break;
ret = put_user(tmp, (u32 __user *) (unsigned long) data);
@@ -179,7 +179,8 @@ long compat_arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, compat_long_t request,
break;
ret = 0;
if (access_process_vm(child, (u64)addrOthers, &data,
- sizeof(data), 1) == sizeof(data))
+ sizeof(data),
+ FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE) == sizeof(data))
break;
ret = -EIO;
break;