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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 /mm/util.c | |
| 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 'mm/util.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index 4c685bde5ebc..952cbe7ad7b7 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ int get_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer, int buflen) if (len > buflen) len = buflen; - res = access_process_vm(task, arg_start, buffer, len, 0); + res = access_process_vm(task, arg_start, buffer, len, FOLL_FORCE); /* * If the nul at the end of args has been overwritten, then @@ -639,7 +639,8 @@ int get_cmdline(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer, int buflen) if (len > buflen - res) len = buflen - res; res += access_process_vm(task, env_start, - buffer+res, len, 0); + buffer+res, len, + FOLL_FORCE); res = strnlen(buffer, res); } } |