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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-02-10 11:12:55 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-02-10 11:13:53 -0800
commit7483948fdd31a8642ef0288aab6f368b98d53c29 (patch)
tree031020a5553701d2aae8dddb0fa509aa65854eb1 /mm/process_vm_access.c
parent22a416c4e0f2179b57028e084ac0ed2c110333bd (diff)
parentfe250923bbbbcbccc9aa7b84d05ee7a060450534 (diff)
Merge tag 'usb-3.3-rc3' into usb-next
This is done to resolve a merge conflict with: drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c and to better handle future patches for this driver as it is under active development at the moment. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/process_vm_access.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/process_vm_access.c23
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/mm/process_vm_access.c b/mm/process_vm_access.c
index e920aa3ce10..c20ff48994c 100644
--- a/mm/process_vm_access.c
+++ b/mm/process_vm_access.c
@@ -298,23 +298,18 @@ static ssize_t process_vm_rw_core(pid_t pid, const struct iovec *lvec,
goto free_proc_pages;
}
- task_lock(task);
- if (__ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH)) {
- task_unlock(task);
- rc = -EPERM;
- goto put_task_struct;
- }
- mm = task->mm;
-
- if (!mm || (task->flags & PF_KTHREAD)) {
- task_unlock(task);
- rc = -EINVAL;
+ mm = mm_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH);
+ if (!mm || IS_ERR(mm)) {
+ rc = IS_ERR(mm) ? PTR_ERR(mm) : -ESRCH;
+ /*
+ * Explicitly map EACCES to EPERM as EPERM is a more a
+ * appropriate error code for process_vw_readv/writev
+ */
+ if (rc == -EACCES)
+ rc = -EPERM;
goto put_task_struct;
}
- atomic_inc(&mm->mm_users);
- task_unlock(task);
-
for (i = 0; i < riovcnt && iov_l_curr_idx < liovcnt; i++) {
rc = process_vm_rw_single_vec(
(unsigned long)rvec[i].iov_base, rvec[i].iov_len,