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Revision 272ddc8b37354c3fe111ab26d25e792629148eee authored by Linus Torvalds on 25 October 2016, 02:00:44 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 25 October 2016, 02:00:44 UTC 
proc: don't use FOLL_FORCE for reading cmdline and environment
 
Now that Lorenzo cleaned things up and made the FOLL_FORCE users
explicit, it becomes obvious how some of them don't really need
FOLL_FORCE at all.

So remove FOLL_FORCE from the proc code that reads the command line and
arguments from user space.

The mem_rw() function actually does want FOLL_FORCE, because gdd (and
possibly many other debuggers) use it as a much more convenient version
of PTRACE_PEEKDATA, but we should consider making the FOLL_FORCE part
conditional on actually being a ptracer.  This does not actually do
that, just moves adds a comment to that effect and moves the gup_flags
settings next to each other.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tip revision: 272ddc8b37354c3fe111ab26d25e792629148eee authored by Linus Torvalds on 25 October 2016, 02:00:44 UTC
proc: don't use FOLL_FORCE for reading cmdline and environment
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