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mm: replace access_remote_vm() write parameter with gup_flags

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This removes the 'write' argument from access_remote_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: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Lorenzo Stoakes 2016-10-13 01:20:19 +01:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 442486ec10
commit 6347e8d5bc
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@ -1268,7 +1268,7 @@ static inline int fixup_user_fault(struct task_struct *tsk,
extern int access_process_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len, int write);
extern int access_remote_vm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
void *buf, int len, int write);
void *buf, int len, unsigned int gup_flags);
long __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,