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diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 9a111f70145..8aad0331d82 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -241,60 +241,6 @@ int ptrace_detach(struct task_struct *child, unsigned int data)
return 0;
}
-/*
- * Access another process' address space.
- * Source/target buffer must be kernel space,
- * Do not walk the page table directly, use get_user_pages
- */
-
-int access_process_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len, int write)
-{
- struct mm_struct *mm;
- struct vm_area_struct *vma;
- struct page *page;
- void *old_buf = buf;
-
- mm = get_task_mm(tsk);
- if (!mm)
- return 0;
-
- down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
- /* ignore errors, just check how much was sucessfully transfered */
- while (len) {
- int bytes, ret, offset;
- void *maddr;
-
- ret = get_user_pages(tsk, mm, addr, 1,
- write, 1, &page, &vma);
- if (ret <= 0)
- break;
-
- bytes = len;
- offset = addr & (PAGE_SIZE-1);
- if (bytes > PAGE_SIZE-offset)
- bytes = PAGE_SIZE-offset;
-
- maddr = kmap(page);
- if (write) {
- copy_to_user_page(vma, page, addr,
- maddr + offset, buf, bytes);
- set_page_dirty_lock(page);
- } else {
- copy_from_user_page(vma, page, addr,
- buf, maddr + offset, bytes);
- }
- kunmap(page);
- page_cache_release(page);
- len -= bytes;
- buf += bytes;
- addr += bytes;
- }
- up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
- mmput(mm);
-
- return buf - old_buf;
-}
-
int ptrace_readdata(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long src, char __user *dst, int len)
{
int copied = 0;