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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/util.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/util.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index c1c3b06ab4f9..b6b9684a1438 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -297,12 +297,7 @@ void *memdup_user_nul(const void __user *src, size_t len) { char *p; - /* - * Always use GFP_KERNEL, since copy_from_user() can sleep and - * cause pagefault, which makes it pointless to use GFP_NOFS - * or GFP_ATOMIC. - */ - p = kmalloc_track_caller(len + 1, GFP_KERNEL); + p = kmem_buckets_alloc_track_caller(user_buckets, len + 1, GFP_USER | __GFP_NOWARN); if (!p) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); @@ -587,6 +582,23 @@ unsigned long vm_mmap_pgoff(struct file *file, unsigned long addr, return ret; } +/* + * Perform a userland memory mapping into the current process address space. See + * the comment for do_mmap() for more details on this operation in general. + * + * This differs from do_mmap() in that: + * + * a. An offset parameter is provided rather than pgoff, which is both checked + * for overflow and page alignment. + * b. mmap locking is performed on the caller's behalf. + * c. Userfaultfd unmap events and memory population are handled. + * + * This means that this function performs essentially the same work as if + * userland were invoking mmap (2). + * + * Returns either an error, or the address at which the requested mapping has + * been performed. + */ unsigned long vm_mmap(struct file *file, unsigned long addr, unsigned long len, unsigned long prot, unsigned long flag, unsigned long offset) |