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+/*
+ * The kernel's access_process_vm is not exported in kernel.org kernels, although
+ * some distros export it on some architectures. To workaround this inconsistency,
+ * we copied and pasted it here. Fortunately, everything it calls is exported.
+ */
+#include <linux/pagemap.h>
+#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
+static int __access_process_vm(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr, void *buf, int len, int write)
+{
+ struct mm_struct *mm;
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma;
+ struct page *page;
+ void *old_buf = buf;
+
+ mm = get_task_mm(tsk);
+ if (!mm)
+ return 0;
+
+ down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ /* ignore errors, just check how much was sucessfully transfered */
+ while (len) {
+ int bytes, ret, offset;
+ void *maddr;
+
+ ret = get_user_pages(tsk, mm, addr, 1,
+ write, 1, &page, &vma);
+ if (ret <= 0)
+ break;
+
+ bytes = len;
+ offset = addr & (PAGE_SIZE-1);
+ if (bytes > PAGE_SIZE-offset)
+ bytes = PAGE_SIZE-offset;
+
+ maddr = kmap(page);
+ if (write) {
+ copy_to_user_page(vma, page, addr,
+ maddr + offset, buf, bytes);
+ set_page_dirty_lock(page);
+ } else {
+ copy_from_user_page(vma, page, addr,
+ buf, maddr + offset, bytes);
+ }
+ kunmap(page);
+ page_cache_release(page);
+ len -= bytes;
+ buf += bytes;
+ addr += bytes;
+ }
+ up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ mmput(mm);
+
+ return buf - old_buf;
+}