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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-02-10 11:12:55 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-02-10 11:13:53 -0800
commit7483948fdd31a8642ef0288aab6f368b98d53c29 (patch)
tree031020a5553701d2aae8dddb0fa509aa65854eb1 /kernel/fork.c
parent22a416c4e0f2179b57028e084ac0ed2c110333bd (diff)
parentfe250923bbbbcbccc9aa7b84d05ee7a060450534 (diff)
Merge tag 'usb-3.3-rc3' into usb-next
This is done to resolve a merge conflict with: drivers/usb/class/cdc-wdm.c and to better handle future patches for this driver as it is under active development at the moment. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 051f090d40c1..1b2ef3c23ae4 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -647,6 +647,26 @@ struct mm_struct *get_task_mm(struct task_struct *task)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_task_mm);
+struct mm_struct *mm_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode)
+{
+ struct mm_struct *mm;
+ int err;
+
+ err = mutex_lock_killable(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex);
+ if (err)
+ return ERR_PTR(err);
+
+ mm = get_task_mm(task);
+ if (mm && mm != current->mm &&
+ !ptrace_may_access(task, mode)) {
+ mmput(mm);
+ mm = ERR_PTR(-EACCES);
+ }
+ mutex_unlock(&task->signal->cred_guard_mutex);
+
+ return mm;
+}
+
/* Please note the differences between mmput and mm_release.
* mmput is called whenever we stop holding onto a mm_struct,
* error success whatever.