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| author | Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> | 2016-10-13 01:20:18 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-10-19 08:12:13 -0700 |
| commit | 442486ec1096781c50227b73f721a63974b0fdda (patch) | |
| tree | 3ceb6dcdc8cfdf930f924f6bed75b329c753b61b /mm/memory.c | |
| parent | 9beae1ea89305a9667ceaab6d0bf46a045ad71e7 (diff) | |
| download | linux-442486ec1096781c50227b73f721a63974b0fdda.tar.bz2 | |
mm: replace __access_remote_vm() write parameter with gup_flags
This removes the 'write' argument from __access_remote_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: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memory.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 20a9adb7b36e..79ebed3a4c2b 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -3869,14 +3869,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(generic_access_phys); * given task for page fault accounting. */ static int __access_remote_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, - unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len, int write) + unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len, unsigned int gup_flags) { struct vm_area_struct *vma; void *old_buf = buf; - unsigned int flags = FOLL_FORCE; - - if (write) - flags |= FOLL_WRITE; + int write = gup_flags & FOLL_WRITE; down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); /* ignore errors, just check how much was successfully transferred */ @@ -3886,7 +3883,7 @@ static int __access_remote_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, struct page *page = NULL; ret = get_user_pages_remote(tsk, mm, addr, 1, - flags, &page, &vma); + gup_flags, &page, &vma); if (ret <= 0) { #ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT break; @@ -3945,7 +3942,12 @@ static int __access_remote_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, int access_remote_vm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len, int write) { - return __access_remote_vm(NULL, mm, addr, buf, len, write); + unsigned int flags = FOLL_FORCE; + + if (write) + flags |= FOLL_WRITE; + + return __access_remote_vm(NULL, mm, addr, buf, len, flags); } /* @@ -3958,12 +3960,17 @@ int access_process_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr, { struct mm_struct *mm; int ret; + unsigned int flags = FOLL_FORCE; mm = get_task_mm(tsk); if (!mm) return 0; - ret = __access_remote_vm(tsk, mm, addr, buf, len, write); + if (write) + flags |= FOLL_WRITE; + + ret = __access_remote_vm(tsk, mm, addr, buf, len, flags); + mmput(mm); return ret; |