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| author | Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> | 2016-10-13 03:20:20 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-10-19 18:31:25 +0300 |
| commit | f307ab6dcea03f9d8e4d70508fd7d1ca57cfa7f9 (patch) | |
| tree | 94a96ebae9957cf1252231a69f8904796aa2563e /arch/alpha | |
| parent | 6347e8d5bcce33fc36e651901efefbe2c93a43ef (diff) | |
| download | linux-f307ab6dcea03f9d8e4d70508fd7d1ca57cfa7f9.tar.xz | |
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 'arch/alpha')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c index d9ee81769899..940dfb406591 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -157,14 +157,16 @@ put_reg(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long regno, unsigned long data) static inline int read_int(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long addr, int * data) { - int copied = access_process_vm(task, addr, data, sizeof(int), 0); + int copied = access_process_vm(task, addr, data, sizeof(int), + FOLL_FORCE); return (copied == sizeof(int)) ? 0 : -EIO; } static inline int write_int(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long addr, int data) { - int copied = access_process_vm(task, addr, &data, sizeof(int), 1); + int copied = access_process_vm(task, addr, &data, sizeof(int), + FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE); return (copied == sizeof(int)) ? 0 : -EIO; } @@ -281,7 +283,8 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request, /* When I and D space are separate, these will need to be fixed. */ case PTRACE_PEEKTEXT: /* read word at location addr. */ case PTRACE_PEEKDATA: - copied = access_process_vm(child, addr, &tmp, sizeof(tmp), 0); + copied = access_process_vm(child, addr, &tmp, sizeof(tmp), + FOLL_FORCE); ret = -EIO; if (copied != sizeof(tmp)) break; |