[PATCH v2 10/40] mm: export symbol mm_access

[Jean-Philippe Brucker]

Some devices can access process address spaces directly. When creating
such bond, to check that a process controlling the device is allowed to
access the target address space, the device driver uses mm_access(). Since
the drivers (in this case VFIO) can be built as a module, export the
mm_access symbol.

Cc: felix.kuehling at amd.com
Cc: akpm at linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker at arm.com>

---
This patch was already sent last year for AMD KFD. I'm resending it for
VFIO, trying to address Andrew Morton's request to comment the exported
function: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1705.2/06774.html
---
 kernel/fork.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index a5d21c42acfc..1062f7450e97 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1098,6 +1098,19 @@ struct mm_struct *get_task_mm(struct task_struct *task)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_task_mm);
 
+/**
+ * mm_access - check access permission to a task and and acquire a reference to
+ * its mm.
+ * @task: target task
+ * @mode: selects type of access and caller credentials
+ *
+ * Return the task's mm on success, or %NULL if it cannot be accessed.
+ *
+ * Check if the caller is allowed to read or write the target task's pages.
+ * @mode describes the access mode and credentials using ptrace access flags.
+ * See ptrace_may_access() for more details. On success, a reference to the mm
+ * is taken.
+ */
 struct mm_struct *mm_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode)
 {
 	struct mm_struct *mm;
@@ -1117,6 +1130,7 @@ struct mm_struct *mm_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode)
 
 	return mm;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mm_access);
 
 static void complete_vfork_done(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
-- 
2.17.0