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| author | Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> | 2016-10-13 01:20:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-10-19 08:31:25 -0700 |
| commit | f307ab6dcea03f9d8e4d70508fd7d1ca57cfa7f9 (patch) | |
| tree | 94a96ebae9957cf1252231a69f8904796aa2563e /arch/x86/um | |
| parent | 6347e8d5bcce33fc36e651901efefbe2c93a43ef (diff) | |
| download | linux-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/x86/um')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/um/ptrace_32.c | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/um/ptrace_64.c | 3 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/um/ptrace_32.c b/arch/x86/um/ptrace_32.c index 5766ead6fdb9..60a5a5a85505 100644 --- a/arch/x86/um/ptrace_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/um/ptrace_32.c @@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ int is_syscall(unsigned long addr) * slow, but that doesn't matter, since it will be called only * in case of singlestepping, if copy_from_user failed. */ - n = access_process_vm(current, addr, &instr, sizeof(instr), 0); + n = access_process_vm(current, addr, &instr, sizeof(instr), + FOLL_FORCE); if (n != sizeof(instr)) { printk(KERN_ERR "is_syscall : failed to read " "instruction from 0x%lx\n", addr); diff --git a/arch/x86/um/ptrace_64.c b/arch/x86/um/ptrace_64.c index 0b5c184dd5b3..e30202b1716e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/um/ptrace_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/um/ptrace_64.c @@ -212,7 +212,8 @@ int is_syscall(unsigned long addr) * slow, but that doesn't matter, since it will be called only * in case of singlestepping, if copy_from_user failed. */ - n = access_process_vm(current, addr, &instr, sizeof(instr), 0); + n = access_process_vm(current, addr, &instr, sizeof(instr), + FOLL_FORCE); if (n != sizeof(instr)) { printk("is_syscall : failed to read instruction from " "0x%lx\n", addr); |