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[PATCH v13 06/20] mm, arm64: untag user pointers in get_vaddr_frames

From: Andrey Konovalov <hidden>
Date: 2019-03-20 14:55:04
Also in: amd-gfx, bpf, linux-arch, linux-kselftest, linux-media, linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: memory management, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Morton, Linus Torvalds

This patch is a part of a series that extends arm64 kernel ABI to allow to
pass tagged user pointers (with the top byte set to something else other
than 0x00) as syscall arguments.

get_vaddr_frames uses provided user pointers for vma lookups, which can
only by done with untagged pointers. Instead of locating and changing
all callers of this function, perform untagging in it.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <redacted>
---
 mm/frame_vector.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/frame_vector.c b/mm/frame_vector.c
index c64dca6e27c2..c431ca81dad5 100644
--- a/mm/frame_vector.c
+++ b/mm/frame_vector.c
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ int get_vaddr_frames(unsigned long start, unsigned int nr_frames,
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(nr_frames > vec->nr_allocated))
 		nr_frames = vec->nr_allocated;
 
+	start = untagged_addr(start);
+
 	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	locked = 1;
 	vma = find_vma_intersection(mm, start, start + 1);
-- 
2.21.0.225.g810b269d1ac-goog
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