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| author | Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> | 2016-10-13 01:20:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-10-19 08:31:25 -0700 |
| commit | f307ab6dcea03f9d8e4d70508fd7d1ca57cfa7f9 (patch) | |
| tree | 94a96ebae9957cf1252231a69f8904796aa2563e /kernel | |
| parent | 6347e8d5bcce33fc36e651901efefbe2c93a43ef (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 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/ptrace.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c index 2a99027312a6..e6474f7272ec 100644 --- a/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ int ptrace_readdata(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long src, char __user *dst int this_len, retval; this_len = (len > sizeof(buf)) ? sizeof(buf) : len; - retval = access_process_vm(tsk, src, buf, this_len, 0); + retval = access_process_vm(tsk, src, buf, this_len, FOLL_FORCE); if (!retval) { if (copied) break; @@ -564,7 +564,8 @@ int ptrace_writedata(struct task_struct *tsk, char __user *src, unsigned long ds this_len = (len > sizeof(buf)) ? sizeof(buf) : len; if (copy_from_user(buf, src, this_len)) return -EFAULT; - retval = access_process_vm(tsk, dst, buf, this_len, 1); + retval = access_process_vm(tsk, dst, buf, this_len, + FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE); if (!retval) { if (copied) break; @@ -1127,7 +1128,7 @@ int generic_ptrace_peekdata(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr, unsigned long tmp; int copied; - copied = access_process_vm(tsk, addr, &tmp, sizeof(tmp), 0); + copied = access_process_vm(tsk, addr, &tmp, sizeof(tmp), FOLL_FORCE); if (copied != sizeof(tmp)) return -EIO; return put_user(tmp, (unsigned long __user *)data); @@ -1138,7 +1139,8 @@ int generic_ptrace_pokedata(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr, { int copied; - copied = access_process_vm(tsk, addr, &data, sizeof(data), 1); + copied = access_process_vm(tsk, addr, &data, sizeof(data), + FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE); return (copied == sizeof(data)) ? 0 : -EIO; } @@ -1155,7 +1157,8 @@ int compat_ptrace_request(struct task_struct *child, compat_long_t request, switch (request) { case PTRACE_PEEKTEXT: case PTRACE_PEEKDATA: - ret = access_process_vm(child, addr, &word, sizeof(word), 0); + ret = access_process_vm(child, addr, &word, sizeof(word), + FOLL_FORCE); if (ret != sizeof(word)) ret = -EIO; else @@ -1164,7 +1167,8 @@ int compat_ptrace_request(struct task_struct *child, compat_long_t request, case PTRACE_POKETEXT: case PTRACE_POKEDATA: - ret = access_process_vm(child, addr, &data, sizeof(data), 1); + ret = access_process_vm(child, addr, &data, sizeof(data), + FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE); ret = (ret != sizeof(data) ? -EIO : 0); break; |