Fix race in process_vm_rw_core
This fixes the race in process_vm_core found by Oleg (see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1235667/ for details). This has been updated since I last sent it as the creation of the new mm_access() function did almost exactly the same thing as parts of the previous version of this patch did. In order to use mm_access() even when /proc isn't enabled, we move it to kernel/fork.c where other related process mm access functions already are. Signed-off-by:Chris Yeoh <yeohc@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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