From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 06:35:23 +0000 Subject: [patch] [media] uvcvideo: remove unneeded access_ok() check Message-Id: <20120321063523.GA20062@elgon.mountain> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Laurent Pinchart Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-media@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org copy_in_user() already checks for write permission, so we don't need to do it here. This was added in 1a5e4c867c "[media] uvcvideo: Implement compat_ioctl32 for custom ioctls". Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c b/drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c index ff2cddd..111bfff 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c @@ -1105,8 +1105,6 @@ static int uvc_v4l2_put_xu_mapping(const struct uvc_xu_control_mapping *kp, if (get_user(p, &up->menu_info)) return -EFAULT; umenus = compat_ptr(p); - if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, umenus, kp->menu_count * sizeof(*umenus))) - return -EFAULT; if (copy_in_user(umenus, kmenus, kp->menu_count * sizeof(*umenus))) return -EFAULT;