pagemap: hide physical addresses from non-privileged users
commit 1c90308e upstream. This patch makes pagemap readable for normal users and hides physical addresses from them. For some use-cases PFN isn't required at all. See http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425935472-17949-1-git-send-email-kirill@shutemov.name Fixes: ab676b7d ("pagemap: do not leak physical addresses to non-privileged userspace") Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Reviewed-by: Mark Williamson <mwilliamson@undo-software.com> Tested-by: Mark Williamson <mwilliamson@undo-software.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Add the same check in the places where we look up a PFN - Add struct pagemapread * parameters where necessary - Open-code file_ns_capable() - Delete pagemap_open() entirely, as it would always return 0] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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