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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 /kernel
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 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/ptrace.c16
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;