Re: [PATCH] NOMMU: use copy_*_user_page() in access_process_vm()

From: David Howells
Date: Wed Dec 02 2009 - 09:37:45 EST


Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> - len -= copy_to_user((void *) addr, buf, len);
> + copy_to_user_page(vma, NULL, NULL,
> + (void *) addr, buf, len);
> else if (!write && vma->vm_flags & VM_MAYREAD)
> - len -= copy_from_user(buf, (void *) addr, len);
> + copy_from_user_page(vma, NULL, NULL,
> + buf, (void *) addr, len);

Hmmm... With this, len isn't updated anymore, and so it alters the return
value of access_process_vm(), and means ptrace_readdata() won't now return
-EIO under some circumstances where it used to. I'm not sure that matters,
though.

David
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