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

This removes the 'write' and 'force' use from get_user_pages_locked()
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 <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Lorenzo Stoakes 2016-10-13 01:20:14 +01:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 3b913179c3
4 changed files with 15 additions and 12 deletions

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@ -848,18 +848,12 @@ static __always_inline long __get_user_pages_locked(struct task_struct *tsk,
* up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
*/
long get_user_pages_locked(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
int write, int force, struct page **pages,
unsigned int gup_flags, struct page **pages,
int *locked)
{
unsigned int flags = FOLL_TOUCH;
if (write)
flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
if (force)
flags |= FOLL_FORCE;
return __get_user_pages_locked(current, current->mm, start, nr_pages,
pages, NULL, locked, true, flags);
pages, NULL, locked, true,
gup_flags | FOLL_TOUCH);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages_locked);