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-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h2
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c16
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 9d6efefdde50..60011d26bffc 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -971,6 +971,8 @@ static inline int handle_mm_fault(struct mm_struct *mm,
extern int make_pages_present(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end);
extern int access_process_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len, int write);
+extern int access_remote_vm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
+ void *buf, int len, int write);
int __get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long start, int len, unsigned int foll_flags,
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 820b4c4810f0..468f5076754c 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3711,6 +3711,22 @@ static int __access_remote_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
return buf - old_buf;
}
+/**
+ * @access_remote_vm - access another process' address space
+ * @mm: the mm_struct of the target address space
+ * @addr: start address to access
+ * @buf: source or destination buffer
+ * @len: number of bytes to transfer
+ * @write: whether the access is a write
+ *
+ * The caller must hold a reference on @mm.
+ */
+int access_remote_vm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
+ void *buf, int len, int write)
+{
+ return __access_remote_vm(NULL, mm, addr, buf, len, write);
+}
+
/*
* Access another process' address space.
* Source/target buffer must be kernel space,