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| author | Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> | 2007-11-14 16:59:33 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-11-14 18:45:39 -0800 |
| commit | 5b23dbe8173c212d6a326e35347b038705603d39 (patch) | |
| tree | a971d3cbab8911e7cbd5bec66f50d093f3f45976 /mm/memory.c | |
| parent | 19cd7537bdae6685c31677a01e08850612ba87f6 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-5b23dbe8173c212d6a326e35347b038705603d39.tar.gz lwn-5b23dbe8173c212d6a326e35347b038705603d39.zip | |
hugetlb: follow_hugetlb_page() for write access
When calling get_user_pages(), a write flag is passed in by the caller to
indicate if write access is required on the faulted-in pages. Currently,
follow_hugetlb_page() ignores this flag and always faults pages for
read-only access. This can cause data corruption because a device driver
that calls get_user_pages() with write set will not expect COW faults to
occur on the returned pages.
This patch passes the write flag down to follow_hugetlb_page() and makes
sure hugetlb_fault() is called with the right write_access parameter.
[ezk@cs.sunysb.edu: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memory.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 9791e4786843..7b0403bfc97f 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -1036,7 +1036,7 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) { i = follow_hugetlb_page(mm, vma, pages, vmas, - &start, &len, i); + &start, &len, i, write); continue; } |