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authorLorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>2016-10-13 01:20:20 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-19 08:31:25 -0700
commitf307ab6dcea03f9d8e4d70508fd7d1ca57cfa7f9 (patch)
tree94a96ebae9957cf1252231a69f8904796aa2563e /arch/score
parent6347e8d5bcce33fc36e651901efefbe2c93a43ef (diff)
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mm: replace access_process_vm() write parameter with gup_flags
This removes the 'write' argument from access_process_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: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/score')
-rw-r--r--arch/score/kernel/ptrace.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/score/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/score/kernel/ptrace.c
index 55836188b217..4f7314d5f334 100644
--- a/arch/score/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/score/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ read_tsk_long(struct task_struct *child,
{
int copied;
- copied = access_process_vm(child, addr, res, sizeof(*res), 0);
+ copied = access_process_vm(child, addr, res, sizeof(*res), FOLL_FORCE);
return copied != sizeof(*res) ? -EIO : 0;
}
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ read_tsk_short(struct task_struct *child,
{
int copied;
- copied = access_process_vm(child, addr, res, sizeof(*res), 0);
+ copied = access_process_vm(child, addr, res, sizeof(*res), FOLL_FORCE);
return copied != sizeof(*res) ? -EIO : 0;
}
@@ -153,7 +153,8 @@ write_tsk_short(struct task_struct *child,
{
int copied;
- copied = access_process_vm(child, addr, &val, sizeof(val), 1);
+ copied = access_process_vm(child, addr, &val, sizeof(val),
+ FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE);
return copied != sizeof(val) ? -EIO : 0;
}
@@ -164,7 +165,8 @@ write_tsk_long(struct task_struct *child,
{
int copied;
- copied = access_process_vm(child, addr, &val, sizeof(val), 1);
+ copied = access_process_vm(child, addr, &val, sizeof(val),
+ FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE);
return copied != sizeof(val) ? -EIO : 0;
}