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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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@@ -1861,7 +1861,8 @@ int access_remote_vm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
* Access another process' address space.
* - source/target buffer must be kernel space
*/
int access_process_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len, int write)
int access_process_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len,
unsigned int gup_flags)
{
struct mm_struct *mm;
@@ -1872,8 +1873,7 @@ int access_process_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr, void *buf, in
if (!mm)
return 0;
len = __access_remote_vm(tsk, mm, addr, buf, len,
write ? FOLL_WRITE : 0);
len = __access_remote_vm(tsk, mm, addr, buf, len, gup_flags);
mmput(mm);
return len;