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| author | Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> | 2016-10-13 01:20:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-10-19 08:12:14 -0700 |
| commit | 6347e8d5bcce33fc36e651901efefbe2c93a43ef (patch) | |
| tree | 8b738e79772acf156b4bbeca09127afb7dae9554 /mm/memory.c | |
| parent | 442486ec1096781c50227b73f721a63974b0fdda (diff) | |
| download | lwn-6347e8d5bcce33fc36e651901efefbe2c93a43ef.tar.gz lwn-6347e8d5bcce33fc36e651901efefbe2c93a43ef.zip | |
mm: replace access_remote_vm() write parameter with gup_flags
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memory.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 79ebed3a4c2b..bac2d994850e 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -3935,19 +3935,14 @@ static int __access_remote_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, * @addr: start address to access * @buf: source or destination buffer * @len: number of bytes to transfer - * @write: whether the access is a write + * @gup_flags: flags modifying lookup behaviour * * The caller must hold a reference on @mm. */ 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) { - unsigned int flags = FOLL_FORCE; - - if (write) - flags |= FOLL_WRITE; - - return __access_remote_vm(NULL, mm, addr, buf, len, flags); + return __access_remote_vm(NULL, mm, addr, buf, len, gup_flags); } /* |