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authorLorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>2016-10-13 01:20:17 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-19 08:12:02 -0700
commit9beae1ea89305a9667ceaab6d0bf46a045ad71e7 (patch)
tree32df9181fe7354a3ea2d4cdc8e852a072f2a2346 /mm/memory.c
parent768ae309a96103ed02eb1e111e838c87854d8b51 (diff)
downloadlinux-9beae1ea89305a9667ceaab6d0bf46a045ad71e7.tar.bz2
mm: replace get_user_pages_remote() write/force parameters with gup_flags
This removes the 'write' and 'force' from get_user_pages_remote() and replaces them with 'gup_flags' to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit in callers as use of this flag 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> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index fc1987dfd8cc..20a9adb7b36e 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3873,6 +3873,10 @@ static int __access_remote_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
{
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
void *old_buf = buf;
+ unsigned int flags = FOLL_FORCE;
+
+ if (write)
+ flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
/* ignore errors, just check how much was successfully transferred */
@@ -3882,7 +3886,7 @@ 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,
- write, 1, &page, &vma);
+ flags, &page, &vma);
if (ret <= 0) {
#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
break;