mm: replace get_user_pages() write/force parameters with gup_flags

This removes the 'write' and 'force' from get_user_pages() and replaces
them with 'gup_flags' to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit in callers
as use of this flag can result in surprising behaviour (and hence bugs)
within the mm subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Lorenzo Stoakes 2016-10-13 01:20:16 +01:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 7f23b3504a
commit 768ae309a9
22 changed files with 49 additions and 54 deletions

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@ -160,18 +160,11 @@ finish_or_fault:
* - don't permit access to VMAs that don't support it, such as I/O mappings
*/
long get_user_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
int write, int force, struct page **pages,
unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages,
struct vm_area_struct **vmas)
{
int flags = 0;
if (write)
flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
if (force)
flags |= FOLL_FORCE;
return __get_user_pages(current, current->mm, start, nr_pages, flags,
pages, vmas, NULL);
return __get_user_pages(current, current->mm, start, nr_pages,
gup_flags, pages, vmas, NULL);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages);
@ -179,10 +172,7 @@ long get_user_pages_locked(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages,
int *locked)
{
int write = gup_flags & FOLL_WRITE;
int force = gup_flags & FOLL_FORCE;
return get_user_pages(start, nr_pages, write, force, pages, NULL);
return get_user_pages(start, nr_pages, gup_flags, pages, NULL);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages_locked);