From 9fd6dad1261a541b3f5fa7dc5b152222306e6702 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Bonzini Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 05:07:11 -0500 Subject: mm: provide a saner PTE walking API for modules Currently, the follow_pfn function is exported for modules but follow_pte is not. However, follow_pfn is very easy to misuse, because it does not provide protections (so most of its callers assume the page is writable!) and because it returns after having already unlocked the page table lock. Provide instead a simplified version of follow_pte that does not have the pmdpp and range arguments. The older version survives as follow_invalidate_pte() for use by fs/dax.c. Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'virt') diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c index 48ccdf4e3d04..ee4ac2618ec5 100644 --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -1911,7 +1911,7 @@ static int hva_to_pfn_remapped(struct vm_area_struct *vma, spinlock_t *ptl; int r; - r = follow_pte(vma->vm_mm, addr, NULL, &ptep, NULL, &ptl); + r = follow_pte(vma->vm_mm, addr, &ptep, &ptl); if (r) { /* * get_user_pages fails for VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP vmas and does @@ -1926,7 +1926,7 @@ static int hva_to_pfn_remapped(struct vm_area_struct *vma, if (r) return r; - r = follow_pte(vma->vm_mm, addr, NULL, &ptep, NULL, &ptl); + r = follow_pte(vma->vm_mm, addr, &ptep, &ptl); if (r) return r; } -- cgit v1.2.3