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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index a2718e1ed585..6bef67d74adf 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -430,6 +430,19 @@ static inline void set_compound_order(struct page *page, unsigned long order) } /* + * Do pte_mkwrite, but only if the vma says VM_WRITE. We do this when + * servicing faults for write access. In the normal case, do always want + * pte_mkwrite. But get_user_pages can cause write faults for mappings + * that do not have writing enabled, when used by access_process_vm. + */ +static inline pte_t maybe_mkwrite(pte_t pte, struct vm_area_struct *vma) +{ + if (likely(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE)) + pte = pte_mkwrite(pte); + return pte; +} + +/* * Multiple processes may "see" the same page. E.g. for untouched * mappings of /dev/null, all processes see the same page full of * zeroes, and text pages of executables and shared libraries have |