From: David Howells Use find_vma() in the NOMMU version of access_process_vm() rather than reimplementing it. Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/nommu.c | 11 +++-------- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/nommu.c~nommu-use-find_vma-rather-than-reimplementing-a-vma-search mm/nommu.c --- a/mm/nommu.c~nommu-use-find_vma-rather-than-reimplementing-a-vma-search +++ a/mm/nommu.c @@ -1039,6 +1039,7 @@ unsigned long do_mremap(unsigned long ad /* * Look up the first VMA which satisfies addr < vm_end, NULL if none + * - should be called with mm->mmap_sem at least readlocked */ struct vm_area_struct *find_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr) { @@ -1213,7 +1214,6 @@ struct page *filemap_nopage(struct vm_ar */ 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; @@ -1227,13 +1227,8 @@ int access_process_vm(struct task_struct 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; - + vma = find_vma(mm, addr); + if (vma) { /* don't overrun this mapping */ if (addr + len >= vma->vm_end) len = vma->vm_end - addr; _