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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2012-02-22 14:20:07 +0000
committerArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2012-02-22 14:20:18 +0000
commit2daa79ec2126f8e710391e9d8e8f0d31d7c91d5f (patch)
treeab89c74c09c2986fa01c25ad8e45989a48a18899 /mm/process_vm_access.c
parent7dae8c5209147ad06d424928a5f1ec45caa87691 (diff)
parent678a0222edc9da43a22145d68647500ee85e6c04 (diff)
Merge branch 'lpc32xx/drivers' into next/drivers
* lpc32xx/drivers: (566 commits) ARM: LPC32xx: ADC support for mach-lpc32xx Includes an update to Linux 3.3-rc4 Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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 e920aa3ce104..c20ff48994c2 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,