1 files changed, 53 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index f2ef1dcfff77..601159a46ab6 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2604,3 +2604,56 @@ int in_gate_area_no_task(unsigned long addr)
 }
 
 #endif  /* __HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA */
+
+/*
+ * Access another process' address space.
+ * Source/target buffer must be kernel space,
+ * Do not walk the page table directly, use get_user_pages
+ */
+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;
+}