Thread (16 messages) 16 messages, 4 authors, 2021-05-20

RE: [PATCH v3 2/4] mm: simplify compat_sys_move_pages

From: David Laight <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-18 20:49:50
Also in: kexec, linux-arm-kernel, linux-mm, lkml

From: Arnd Bergmann
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Sent: 17 May 2021 21:34

The compat move_pages() implementation uses compat_alloc_user_space()
for converting the pointer array. Moving the compat handling into
the function itself is a bit simpler and lets us avoid the
compat_alloc_user_space() call.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
---
 mm/migrate.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index b234c3f3acb7..a68d07f19a1a 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -1855,6 +1855,23 @@ static void do_pages_stat_array(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long nr_pages,
 	mmap_read_unlock(mm);
 }

+static int put_compat_pages_array(const void __user *chunk_pages[],
+				  const void __user * __user *pages,
+				  unsigned long chunk_nr)
+{
Should that be get_compat_pages_array() ?

	David

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