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| author | Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> | 2016-10-13 02:20:20 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-10-19 17:31:25 +0200 |
| commit | f307ab6dcea03f9d8e4d70508fd7d1ca57cfa7f9 (patch) | |
| tree | 94a96ebae9957cf1252231a69f8904796aa2563e /include | |
| parent | mm: replace access_remote_vm() write parameter with gup_flags (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 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index f31bf9058587..ffbd72979ee7 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -1266,7 +1266,8 @@ static inline int fixup_user_fault(struct task_struct *tsk, } #endif -extern int access_process_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len, int write); +extern int access_process_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len, + unsigned int gup_flags); extern int access_remote_vm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len, unsigned int gup_flags); |