diff options
| author |   Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> | 2016-10-13 01:20:20 +0100 |
|---|---|---|
| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-10-19 08:31:25 -0700 |
| commit | f307ab6dcea03f9d8e4d70508fd7d1ca57cfa7f9 (patch) | |
| tree | 94a96ebae9957cf1252231a69f8904796aa2563e /arch/x86/kernel/step.c | |
| parent | mm: replace access_remote_vm() write parameter with gup_flags (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-f307ab6dcea03f9d8e4d70508fd7d1ca57cfa7f9.tar.xz linux-dev-f307ab6dcea03f9d8e4d70508fd7d1ca57cfa7f9.zip | |
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/x86/kernel/step.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/step.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/step.c b/arch/x86/kernel/step.c index c9a073866ca7..a23ce84a3f6c 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/step.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/step.c @@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ static int is_setting_trap_flag(struct task_struct *child, struct pt_regs *regs) unsigned char opcode[15]; unsigned long addr = convert_ip_to_linear(child, regs); - copied = access_process_vm(child, addr, opcode, sizeof(opcode), 0); + copied = access_process_vm(child, addr, opcode, sizeof(opcode), + FOLL_FORCE); for (i = 0; i < copied; i++) { switch (opcode[i]) { /* popf and iret */ |