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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/nommu.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/nommu.c | 30 |
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -122,19 +122,35 @@ unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp) } /* - * The nommu dodgy version :-) + * get a list of pages in an address range belonging to the specified process + * and indicate the VMA that covers each page + * - this is potentially dodgy as we may end incrementing the page count of a + * slab page or a secondary page from a compound page + * - don't permit access to VMAs that don't support it, such as I/O mappings */ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, int len, int write, int force, struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas) { - int i; struct vm_area_struct *vma; + unsigned long vm_flags; + int i; + + /* calculate required read or write permissions. + * - if 'force' is set, we only require the "MAY" flags. + */ + vm_flags = write ? (VM_WRITE | VM_MAYWRITE) : (VM_READ | VM_MAYREAD); + vm_flags &= force ? (VM_MAYREAD | VM_MAYWRITE) : (VM_READ | VM_WRITE); for (i = 0; i < len; i++) { vma = find_vma(mm, start); - if(!vma) - return i ? : -EFAULT; + if (!vma) + goto finish_or_fault; + + /* protect what we can, including chardevs */ + if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP) || + !(vm_flags & vma->vm_flags)) + goto finish_or_fault; if (pages) { pages[i] = virt_to_page(start); @@ -145,7 +161,11 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, vmas[i] = vma; start += PAGE_SIZE; } - return(i); + + return i; + +finish_or_fault: + return i ? : -EFAULT; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages); |