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authorLorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>2016-10-13 01:20:18 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-19 08:12:13 -0700
commit442486ec1096781c50227b73f721a63974b0fdda (patch)
tree3ceb6dcdc8cfdf930f924f6bed75b329c753b61b /mm/memory.c
parent9beae1ea89305a9667ceaab6d0bf46a045ad71e7 (diff)
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.c23
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;