From patchwork Fri May 11 19:06:11 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Jean-Philippe Brucker X-Patchwork-Id: 10395167 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E1FF601A0 for ; Fri, 11 May 2018 19:17:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 735DF28E44 for ; Fri, 11 May 2018 19:17:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 65BCA28E57; Fri, 11 May 2018 19:17:02 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ABA9F28E44 for ; Fri, 11 May 2018 19:17:01 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20170209; h=Sender: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:Cc:List-Subscribe: List-Help:List-Post:List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:References: In-Reply-To:Message-Id:Date:Subject:To:From:Reply-To:Content-ID: Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc :Resent-Message-ID:List-Owner; bh=35Mmei5Qt6k436ViwR2Is8yjdQ2jEbHRDr4J2d10jik=; b=CWnuypYf9m1UFVSQY052Y/Kkbf M78UScovbACPqO7D6JdoxEKSVfAQLCTGkCJ2JJwa4FJQesRS1/YSoRfLRFovuaWw7Bct0yaZlwozY JyOW8rCr07b3oXmBKGlFbqdQHZ5ysH57Jafj1nH0qUjtDI5L96U4XV2fOUczYcz+6bGYLUHwRcO0T CDaA7Mobe8uRQJlPSBG+aXnCqvkc4bIkrK1abv25ObcWs8J91DI8Aow0WdJG2PuECB8LrmNsv58lm NSMjisjKa9GwRBYrv3UIdw3uOV84n2U1GhRoZF4J2nRPlfNa5hfqJMNRws0zp85uD6/MpAEEWjpPc fmL2TKog==; Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1fHDWx-0002nJ-9r; Fri, 11 May 2018 19:16:39 +0000 Received: from usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70] helo=foss.arm.com) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1fHDP1-0005I9-A0 for linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 11 May 2018 19:08:31 +0000 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.72.51.249]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F9DE19E8; Fri, 11 May 2018 12:08:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ostrya.cambridge.arm.com (ostrya.cambridge.arm.com [10.1.210.33]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 9F5283F23C; Fri, 11 May 2018 12:08:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Jean-Philippe Brucker To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: [PATCH v2 10/40] mm: export symbol mm_access Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 20:06:11 +0100 Message-Id: <20180511190641.23008-11-jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.0 In-Reply-To: <20180511190641.23008-1-jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com> References: <20180511190641.23008-1-jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com> X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20180511_120827_444475_269E2DF7 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 12.89 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: xieyisheng1@huawei.com, liubo95@huawei.com, xuzaibo@huawei.com, thunder.leizhen@huawei.com, will.deacon@arm.com, okaya@codeaurora.org, yi.l.liu@intel.com, ashok.raj@intel.com, tn@semihalf.com, joro@8bytes.org, bharatku@xilinx.com, liudongdong3@huawei.com, rfranz@cavium.com, kevin.tian@intel.com, jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com, jcrouse@codeaurora.org, rgummal@xilinx.com, jonathan.cameron@huawei.com, shunyong.yang@hxt-semitech.com, robin.murphy@arm.com, felix.kuehling@amd.com, ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org, alex.williamson@redhat.com, robdclark@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, christian.koenig@amd.com, nwatters@codeaurora.org, baolu.lu@linux.intel.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+patchwork-linux-arm=patchwork.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Some devices can access process address spaces directly. When creating such bond, to check that a process controlling the device is allowed to access the target address space, the device driver uses mm_access(). Since the drivers (in this case VFIO) can be built as a module, export the mm_access symbol. Cc: felix.kuehling@amd.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker --- This patch was already sent last year for AMD KFD. I'm resending it for VFIO, trying to address Andrew Morton's request to comment the exported function: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1705.2/06774.html --- kernel/fork.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index a5d21c42acfc..1062f7450e97 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1098,6 +1098,19 @@ struct mm_struct *get_task_mm(struct task_struct *task) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_task_mm); +/** + * mm_access - check access permission to a task and and acquire a reference to + * its mm. + * @task: target task + * @mode: selects type of access and caller credentials + * + * Return the task's mm on success, or %NULL if it cannot be accessed. + * + * Check if the caller is allowed to read or write the target task's pages. + * @mode describes the access mode and credentials using ptrace access flags. + * See ptrace_may_access() for more details. On success, a reference to the mm + * is taken. + */ struct mm_struct *mm_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode) { struct mm_struct *mm; @@ -1117,6 +1130,7 @@ struct mm_struct *mm_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode) return mm; } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mm_access); static void complete_vfork_done(struct task_struct *tsk) {