[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 10/10] mm: replace access_process_vm() write parameter with gup_flags

[Michael Ellerman]

Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes at gmail.com> writes:

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c
> index f52b7db3..010b7b3 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c
> @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ long compat_arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, compat_long_t request,
>  			break;
>  
>  		copied = access_process_vm(child, (u64)addrOthers, &tmp,
> -				sizeof(tmp), 0);
> +				sizeof(tmp), FOLL_FORCE);
>  		if (copied != sizeof(tmp))
>  			break;
>  		ret = put_user(tmp, (u32 __user *)data);

LGTM.

> @@ -179,7 +179,8 @@ long compat_arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, compat_long_t request,
>  			break;
>  		ret = 0;
>  		if (access_process_vm(child, (u64)addrOthers, &tmp,
> -					sizeof(tmp), 1) == sizeof(tmp))
> +					sizeof(tmp),
> +					FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE) == sizeof(tmp))
>  			break;
>  		ret = -EIO;
>  		break;

If you're respinning this anyway, can you format that as:

		if (access_process_vm(child, (u64)addrOthers, &tmp, sizeof(tmp),
				      FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE) == sizeof(tmp))
  			break;

I realise you probably deliberately didn't do that to make the diff clearer.

Either way:

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)


cheers