mm: replace get_vaddr_frames() write/force parameters with gup_flags

This removes the 'write' and 'force' from get_vaddr_frames() and
replaces them with 'gup_flags' to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit in
callers as use of this flag can result in surprising behaviour (and
hence bugs) within the mm subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/mm/frame_vector.c b/mm/frame_vector.c
index 81b67498bb9c..db77dcb38afd 100644
--- a/mm/frame_vector.c
+++ b/mm/frame_vector.c
@@ -11,10 +11,7 @@
  * get_vaddr_frames() - map virtual addresses to pfns
  * @start:	starting user address
  * @nr_frames:	number of pages / pfns from start to map
- * @write:	whether pages will be written to by the caller
- * @force:	whether to force write access even if user mapping is
- *		readonly. See description of the same argument of
-		get_user_pages().
+ * @gup_flags:	flags modifying lookup behaviour
  * @vec:	structure which receives pages / pfns of the addresses mapped.
  *		It should have space for at least nr_frames entries.
  *
@@ -34,23 +31,17 @@
  * This function takes care of grabbing mmap_sem as necessary.
  */
 int get_vaddr_frames(unsigned long start, unsigned int nr_frames,
-		     bool write, bool force, struct frame_vector *vec)
+		     unsigned int gup_flags, struct frame_vector *vec)
 {
 	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
 	int ret = 0;
 	int err;
 	int locked;
-	unsigned int gup_flags = 0;
 
 	if (nr_frames == 0)
 		return 0;
 
-	if (write)
-		gup_flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
-	if (force)
-		gup_flags |= FOLL_FORCE;
-
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(nr_frames > vec->nr_allocated))
 		nr_frames = vec->nr_allocated;