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authorLorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>2016-10-13 01:20:13 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-10-18 14:13:37 -0700
commitc164154f66f0c9b02673f07aa4f044f1d9c70274 (patch)
treefdfdc521c7cadcbbd8b4bb6bd85e8b17c13fcb13 /mm/gup.c
parentd4944b0ecec0af882483fe44b66729316e575208 (diff)
downloadlinux-c164154f66f0c9b02673f07aa4f044f1d9c70274.tar.gz
mm: replace get_user_pages_unlocked() write/force parameters with gup_flags
This removes the 'write' and 'force' use from get_user_pages_unlocked()
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 <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/gup.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/gup.c14
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index e997f545b059..373d1ec006e4 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -907,17 +907,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__get_user_pages_unlocked);
  * "force" parameter).
  */
 long get_user_pages_unlocked(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
-			     int write, int force, struct page **pages)
+			     struct page **pages, unsigned int gup_flags)
 {
-	unsigned int flags = FOLL_TOUCH;
-
-	if (write)
-		flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
-	if (force)
-		flags |= FOLL_FORCE;
-
 	return __get_user_pages_unlocked(current, current->mm, start, nr_pages,
-					 pages, flags);
+					 pages, gup_flags | FOLL_TOUCH);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages_unlocked);
 
@@ -1535,7 +1528,8 @@ int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
 		start += nr << PAGE_SHIFT;
 		pages += nr;
 
-		ret = get_user_pages_unlocked(start, nr_pages - nr, write, 0, pages);
+		ret = get_user_pages_unlocked(start, nr_pages - nr, pages,
+				write ? FOLL_WRITE : 0);
 
 		/* Have to be a bit careful with return values */
 		if (nr > 0) {