From 0103bd16fb90bc741c7a03fd1ea4e8a505abad23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Konstantin Khlebnikov Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 16:28:59 -0700 Subject: mm: prepare VM_DONTDUMP for using in drivers Rename VM_NODUMP into VM_DONTDUMP: this name matches other negative flags: VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_DONTCOPY. Currently this flag used only for sys_madvise. The next patch will use it for replacing the outdated flag VM_RESERVED. Also forbid madvise(MADV_DODUMP) for special kernel mappings VM_SPECIAL (VM_IO | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_RESERVED | VM_PFNMAP) Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Carsten Otte Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Eric Paris Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Morris Cc: Jason Baron Cc: Kentaro Takeda Cc: Matt Helsley Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Suresh Siddha Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/madvise.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/madvise.c') diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index 14d260fa0d17..03dfa5c7adb3 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -69,10 +69,14 @@ static long madvise_behavior(struct vm_area_struct * vma, new_flags &= ~VM_DONTCOPY; break; case MADV_DONTDUMP: - new_flags |= VM_NODUMP; + new_flags |= VM_DONTDUMP; break; case MADV_DODUMP: - new_flags &= ~VM_NODUMP; + if (new_flags & VM_SPECIAL) { + error = -EINVAL; + goto out; + } + new_flags &= ~VM_DONTDUMP; break; case MADV_MERGEABLE: case MADV_UNMERGEABLE: -- cgit v1.2.3