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| author | Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> | 2016-10-13 01:20:18 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-10-19 08:12:13 -0700 |
| commit | 442486ec1096781c50227b73f721a63974b0fdda (patch) | |
| tree | 3ceb6dcdc8cfdf930f924f6bed75b329c753b61b /mm/nommu.c | |
| parent | 9beae1ea89305a9667ceaab6d0bf46a045ad71e7 (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/nommu.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/nommu.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c index 70cb844dfd95..bde7df35118b 100644 --- a/mm/nommu.c +++ b/mm/nommu.c @@ -1809,9 +1809,10 @@ void filemap_map_pages(struct fault_env *fe, EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_map_pages); 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; + int write = gup_flags & FOLL_WRITE; down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); @@ -1853,7 +1854,8 @@ 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); + return __access_remote_vm(NULL, mm, addr, buf, len, + write ? FOLL_WRITE : 0); } /* @@ -1871,7 +1873,8 @@ 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); + len = __access_remote_vm(tsk, mm, addr, buf, len, + write ? FOLL_WRITE : 0); mmput(mm); return len; |