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authorLorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>2016-10-13 01:20:19 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-12-17 21:55:17 +0100
commit079d9ea86202777cd57c69879a5ba8db6a2c1b1e (patch)
tree17bc1be04948e68d213297e2f2be79c82df692b4 /mm/memory.c
parent2b8143d6874b385c79b60257bb0f0ad328ee2194 (diff)
mm: replace access_remote_vm() write parameter with gup_flags
commit 6347e8d5bcce33fc36e651901efefbe2c93a43ef upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c11
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 1a0d727687d0..fa752df6dc85 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3777,19 +3777,14 @@ static int __access_remote_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
* @addr: start address to access
* @buf: source or destination buffer
* @len: number of bytes to transfer
- * @write: whether the access is a write
+ * @gup_flags: flags modifying lookup behaviour
*
* The caller must hold a reference on @mm.
*/
int access_remote_vm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
- void *buf, int len, int write)
+ void *buf, int len, unsigned int gup_flags)
{
- unsigned int flags = FOLL_FORCE;
-
- if (write)
- flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
-
- return __access_remote_vm(NULL, mm, addr, buf, len, flags);
+ return __access_remote_vm(NULL, mm, addr, buf, len, gup_flags);
}
/*