aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/mm/nommu.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/nommu.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/nommu.c47
1 files changed, 47 insertions, 0 deletions
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;
+}