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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/memory.c | 53 |
1 files changed, 53 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index f2ef1dcfff7..601159a46ab 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -2604,3 +2604,56 @@ int in_gate_area_no_task(unsigned long addr) } #endif /* __HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA */ + +/* + * 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; +} |