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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
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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 'include/linux/mm.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index d4e8077fca96..391ae8a3d5f9 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1207,8 +1207,7 @@ long get_user_pages_locked(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
int *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 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);