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mm: replace access_process_vm() write parameter with gup_flags

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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>
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Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-13 01:20:20 +01:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 6347e8d5bc
commit f307ab6dce
17 changed files with 84 additions and 54 deletions
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arch/mips/kernel/ptrace32.c
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@@ -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;