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-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c53
-rw-r--r--mm/nommu.c47
2 files changed, 100 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index f2ef1dcfff7..601159a46ab 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2604,3 +2604,56 @@ int in_gate_area_no_task(unsigned long addr)
}
#endif /* __HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA */
+
+/*
+ * Access another process' address space.
+ * Source/target buffer must be kernel space,
+ * Do not walk the page table directly, use get_user_pages
+ */
+int access_process_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len, int write)
+{
+ struct mm_struct *mm;
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma;
+ struct page *page;
+ void *old_buf = buf;
+
+ mm = get_task_mm(tsk);
+ if (!mm)
+ return 0;
+
+ down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ /* ignore errors, just check how much was sucessfully transfered */
+ while (len) {
+ int bytes, ret, offset;
+ void *maddr;
+
+ ret = get_user_pages(tsk, mm, addr, 1,
+ write, 1, &page, &vma);
+ if (ret <= 0)
+ break;
+
+ bytes = len;
+ offset = addr & (PAGE_SIZE-1);
+ if (bytes > PAGE_SIZE-offset)
+ bytes = PAGE_SIZE-offset;
+
+ maddr = kmap(page);
+ if (write) {
+ copy_to_user_page(vma, page, addr,
+ maddr + offset, buf, bytes);
+ set_page_dirty_lock(page);
+ } else {
+ copy_from_user_page(vma, page, addr,
+ buf, maddr + offset, bytes);
+ }
+ kunmap(page);
+ page_cache_release(page);
+ len -= bytes;
+ buf += bytes;
+ addr += bytes;
+ }
+ up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ mmput(mm);
+
+ return buf - old_buf;
+}
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index d99dea31e44..d08acdae003 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -1206,3 +1206,50 @@ struct page *filemap_nopage(struct vm_area_struct *area,
BUG();
return NULL;
}
+
+/*
+ * Access another process' address space.
+ * - source/target buffer must be kernel space
+ */
+int access_process_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len, int write)
+{
+ struct vm_list_struct *vml;
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma;
+ struct mm_struct *mm;
+
+ if (addr + len < addr)
+ return 0;
+
+ mm = get_task_mm(tsk);
+ if (!mm)
+ return 0;
+
+ down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+
+ /* the access must start within one of the target process's mappings */
+ for (vml = mm->context.vmlist; vml; vml = vml->next)
+ if (addr >= vml->vma->vm_start && addr < vml->vma->vm_end)
+ break;
+
+ if (vml) {
+ vma = vml->vma;
+
+ /* don't overrun this mapping */
+ if (addr + len >= vma->vm_end)
+ len = vma->vm_end - addr;
+
+ /* only read or write mappings where it is permitted */
+ if (write && vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE)
+ len -= copy_to_user((void *) addr, buf, len);
+ else if (!write && vma->vm_flags & VM_READ)
+ len -= copy_from_user(buf, (void *) addr, len);
+ else
+ len = 0;
+ } else {
+ len = 0;
+ }
+
+ up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ mmput(mm);
+ return len;
+}