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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/powerpc | |
| 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/powerpc')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c index f52b7db327c8..010b7b310237 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ long compat_arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, compat_long_t request, break; copied = access_process_vm(child, (u64)addrOthers, &tmp, - sizeof(tmp), 0); + sizeof(tmp), FOLL_FORCE); if (copied != sizeof(tmp)) break; ret = put_user(tmp, (u32 __user *)data); @@ -179,7 +179,8 @@ long compat_arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, compat_long_t request, break; ret = 0; if (access_process_vm(child, (u64)addrOthers, &tmp, - sizeof(tmp), 1) == sizeof(tmp)) + sizeof(tmp), + FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE) == sizeof(tmp)) break; ret = -EIO; break; |