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proc: don't use FOLL_FORCE for reading cmdline and environment
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Now that Lorenzo cleaned things up and made the FOLL_FORCE users
explicit, it becomes obvious how some of them don't really need
FOLL_FORCE at all.

So remove FOLL_FORCE from the proc code that reads the command line and
arguments from user space.

The mem_rw() function actually does want FOLL_FORCE, because gdd (and
possibly many other debuggers) use it as a much more convenient version
of PTRACE_PEEKDATA, but we should consider making the FOLL_FORCE part
conditional on actually being a ptracer.  This does not actually do
that, just moves adds a comment to that effect and moves the gup_flags
settings next to each other.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds committed Oct 25, 2016
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18 changes: 8 additions & 10 deletions fs/proc/base.c
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Expand Up @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_pid_cmdline_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
* Inherently racy -- command line shares address space
* with code and data.
*/
rv = access_remote_vm(mm, arg_end - 1, &c, 1, FOLL_FORCE);
rv = access_remote_vm(mm, arg_end - 1, &c, 1, 0);
if (rv <= 0)
goto out_free_page;

Expand All @@ -270,8 +270,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_pid_cmdline_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
int nr_read;

_count = min3(count, len, PAGE_SIZE);
nr_read = access_remote_vm(mm, p, page, _count,
FOLL_FORCE);
nr_read = access_remote_vm(mm, p, page, _count, 0);
if (nr_read < 0)
rv = nr_read;
if (nr_read <= 0)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -306,8 +305,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_pid_cmdline_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
bool final;

_count = min3(count, len, PAGE_SIZE);
nr_read = access_remote_vm(mm, p, page, _count,
FOLL_FORCE);
nr_read = access_remote_vm(mm, p, page, _count, 0);
if (nr_read < 0)
rv = nr_read;
if (nr_read <= 0)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -356,8 +354,7 @@ static ssize_t proc_pid_cmdline_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
bool final;

_count = min3(count, len, PAGE_SIZE);
nr_read = access_remote_vm(mm, p, page, _count,
FOLL_FORCE);
nr_read = access_remote_vm(mm, p, page, _count, 0);
if (nr_read < 0)
rv = nr_read;
if (nr_read <= 0)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -835,7 +832,7 @@ static ssize_t mem_rw(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
unsigned long addr = *ppos;
ssize_t copied;
char *page;
unsigned int flags = FOLL_FORCE;
unsigned int flags;

if (!mm)
return 0;
Expand All @@ -848,6 +845,8 @@ static ssize_t mem_rw(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&mm->mm_users))
goto free;

/* Maybe we should limit FOLL_FORCE to actual ptrace users? */
flags = FOLL_FORCE;
if (write)
flags |= FOLL_WRITE;

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -971,8 +970,7 @@ static ssize_t environ_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
max_len = min_t(size_t, PAGE_SIZE, count);
this_len = min(max_len, this_len);

retval = access_remote_vm(mm, (env_start + src),
page, this_len, FOLL_FORCE);
retval = access_remote_vm(mm, (env_start + src), page, this_len, 0);

if (retval <= 0) {
ret = retval;
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