[PATCH mm-unstable v1 19/20] habanalabs: remove FOLL_FORCE usage

David Hildenbrand david at redhat.com
Wed Nov 16 21:26:58 AEDT 2022


FOLL_FORCE is really only for ptrace access. As we unpin the pinned pages
using unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock(true), the assumption is that all these
pages are writable.

FOLL_FORCE in this case seems to be due to copy-and-past from other
drivers. Let's just remove it.

Acked-by: Oded Gabbay <ogabbay at kernel.org>
Cc: Oded Gabbay <ogabbay at kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/memory.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/memory.c b/drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/memory.c
index ef28f3b37b93..e35cca96bbef 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/memory.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/memory.c
@@ -2312,8 +2312,7 @@ static int get_user_memory(struct hl_device *hdev, u64 addr, u64 size,
 	if (!userptr->pages)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	rc = pin_user_pages_fast(start, npages,
-				 FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM,
+	rc = pin_user_pages_fast(start, npages, FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM,
 				 userptr->pages);
 
 	if (rc != npages) {
-- 
2.38.1



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