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authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2018-02-07 15:54:20 -0700
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2018-02-07 15:54:20 -0700
commit61a695184fcc8f225327206b88320279dd8684af (patch)
tree6cbda2b0e7de94ebad95072d17cc0aa82c9d8ab3 /mm/process_vm_access.c
parent9e05c864993c5442227f83ae1694a737d7a102ed (diff)
parent581e400ff935d34d95811258586128bf11baef15 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into test
* master: (1190 commits) ASoC: stm32: add of dependency for stm32 drivers ASoC: mt8173-rt5650: fix child-node lookup ASoC: dapm: fix debugfs read using path->connected platform/x86: samsung-laptop: Re-use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE() macro platform/x86: ideapad-laptop: Re-use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE() macro platform/x86: dell-laptop: Re-use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE() macro seq_file: Introduce DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE() helper macro Documentation/sysctl/user.txt: fix typo MAINTAINERS: update ARM/QUALCOMM SUPPORT patterns MAINTAINERS: update various PALM patterns MAINTAINERS: update "ARM/OXNAS platform support" patterns MAINTAINERS: update Cortina/Gemini patterns MAINTAINERS: remove ARM/CLKDEV SUPPORT file pattern MAINTAINERS: remove ANDROID ION pattern mm: docs: add blank lines to silence sphinx "Unexpected indentation" errors mm: docs: fix parameter names mismatch mm: docs: fixup punctuation pipe: read buffer limits atomically pipe: simplify round_pipe_size() pipe: reject F_SETPIPE_SZ with size over UINT_MAX ...
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/process_vm_access.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/process_vm_access.c10
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/process_vm_access.c b/mm/process_vm_access.c
index 8973cd231ece..a447092d4635 100644
--- a/mm/process_vm_access.c
+++ b/mm/process_vm_access.c
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
/**
* process_vm_rw_pages - read/write pages from task specified
* @pages: array of pointers to pages we want to copy
- * @start_offset: offset in page to start copying from/to
+ * @offset: offset in page to start copying from/to
* @len: number of bytes to copy
* @iter: where to copy to/from locally
* @vm_write: 0 means copy from, 1 means copy to
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ static int process_vm_rw_single_vec(unsigned long addr,
* @riovcnt: size of rvec array
* @flags: currently unused
* @vm_write: 0 if reading from other process, 1 if writing to other process
+ *
* Returns the number of bytes read/written or error code. May
* return less bytes than expected if an error occurs during the copying
* process.
@@ -197,11 +198,7 @@ static ssize_t process_vm_rw_core(pid_t pid, struct iov_iter *iter,
}
/* Get process information */
- rcu_read_lock();
- task = find_task_by_vpid(pid);
- if (task)
- get_task_struct(task);
- rcu_read_unlock();
+ task = find_get_task_by_vpid(pid);
if (!task) {
rc = -ESRCH;
goto free_proc_pages;
@@ -253,6 +250,7 @@ free_proc_pages:
* @riovcnt: size of rvec array
* @flags: currently unused
* @vm_write: 0 if reading from other process, 1 if writing to other process
+ *
* Returns the number of bytes read/written or error code. May
* return less bytes than expected if an error occurs during the copying
* process.