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authorLorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>2016-10-13 01:20:12 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-12-17 21:55:16 +0100
commitab424c8eb71ee9ea4ba798faaeaf62e84048cb9a (patch)
tree24ed72e49c33b6aade395525b9710f19cf96984d /mm
parent6a3c9524df93e9597d30c2d32114950772fce58e (diff)
mm: remove write/force parameters from __get_user_pages_unlocked()
commit d4944b0ecec0af882483fe44b66729316e575208 upstream. This removes the redundant 'write' and 'force' parameters from __get_user_pages_unlocked() to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit in callers as use of this flag can result in surprising behaviour (and hence bugs) within the mm subsystem. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [bwh: Backported to 4.4: - Defer changes in process_vm_rw_single_vec() and async_pf_execute() since they use get_user_pages_unlocked() here - Adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/gup.c19
-rw-r--r--mm/nommu.c14
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index bed758f7bd63..9aee6945f349 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -764,17 +764,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages_locked);
*/
__always_inline long __get_user_pages_unlocked(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
- int write, int force, struct page **pages,
- unsigned int gup_flags)
+ struct page **pages, unsigned int gup_flags)
{
long ret;
int locked = 1;
- if (write)
- gup_flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
- if (force)
- gup_flags |= FOLL_FORCE;
-
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
ret = __get_user_pages_locked(tsk, mm, start, nr_pages, pages, NULL,
&locked, false, gup_flags);
@@ -805,8 +799,15 @@ long get_user_pages_unlocked(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
int write, int force, struct page **pages)
{
- return __get_user_pages_unlocked(tsk, mm, start, nr_pages, write,
- force, pages, FOLL_TOUCH);
+ unsigned int flags = FOLL_TOUCH;
+
+ if (write)
+ flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
+ if (force)
+ flags |= FOLL_FORCE;
+
+ return __get_user_pages_unlocked(tsk, mm, start, nr_pages,
+ pages, flags);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages_unlocked);
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 92be862c859b..5462ed88a548 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -211,8 +211,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages_locked);
long __get_user_pages_unlocked(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
- int write, int force, struct page **pages,
- unsigned int gup_flags)
+ struct page **pages, unsigned int gup_flags)
{
long ret;
down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
@@ -227,8 +226,15 @@ long get_user_pages_unlocked(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
int write, int force, struct page **pages)
{
- return __get_user_pages_unlocked(tsk, mm, start, nr_pages, write,
- force, pages, 0);
+ unsigned int flags = 0;
+
+ if (write)
+ flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
+ if (force)
+ flags |= FOLL_FORCE;
+
+ return __get_user_pages_unlocked(tsk, mm, start, nr_pages,
+ pages, flags);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages_unlocked);