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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2022-09-16 02:25:47 +0200
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2022-11-25 19:01:55 +0100
commitde4eda9de2d957ef2d6a8365a01e26a435e958cb (patch)
tree49b0d60dedb65af7f0d3e874ee9c661e6b09697b /mm/process_vm_access.c
parentiov_iter: saner checks for attempt to copy to/from iterator (diff)
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use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers
READ/WRITE proved to be actively confusing - the meanings are "data destination, as used with read(2)" and "data source, as used with write(2)", but people keep interpreting those as "we read data from it" and "we write data to it", i.e. exactly the wrong way. Call them ITER_DEST and ITER_SOURCE - at least that is harder to misinterpret... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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diff --git a/mm/process_vm_access.c b/mm/process_vm_access.c
index 4bcc11958089..78dfaf9e8990 100644
--- a/mm/process_vm_access.c
+++ b/mm/process_vm_access.c
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ static ssize_t process_vm_rw(pid_t pid,
struct iovec *iov_r;
struct iov_iter iter;
ssize_t rc;
- int dir = vm_write ? WRITE : READ;
+ int dir = vm_write ? ITER_SOURCE : ITER_DEST;
if (flags != 0)
return -EINVAL;