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>
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Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-13 01:20:20 +01:00
کامیت شده توسط Linus Torvalds
والد 6347e8d5bc
کامیت f307ab6dce
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مشاهده پرونده

@@ -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);