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mm: replace access_remote_vm() write parameter with gup_flags
authorLorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Thu, 13 Oct 2016 00:20:19 +0000 (01:20 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 20:55:17 +0000 (21:55 +0100)
commit079d9ea86202777cd57c69879a5ba8db6a2c1b1e
tree17bc1be04948e68d213297e2f2be79c82df692b4
parent2b8143d6874b385c79b60257bb0f0ad328ee2194
mm: replace access_remote_vm() write parameter with gup_flags

commit 6347e8d5bcce33fc36e651901efefbe2c93a43ef upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/proc/base.c
include/linux/mm.h
mm/memory.c
mm/nommu.c