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* [PATCH] mpt3sas: remove redundant copy_from_user in _ctl_getiocinfo
@ 2017-09-20 15:13 Meng Xu
  2017-09-20 15:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
  2017-09-25 23:22 ` Martin K. Petersen
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Meng Xu @ 2017-09-20 15:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: hch, sathya.prakash, chaitra.basappa, suganath-prabu.subramani,
	jejb, martin.petersen, MPT-FusionLinux.pdl, linux-scsi,
	linux-kernel
  Cc: meng.xu, sanidhya, taesoo, Meng Xu

Since right after the user copy, we are going to
memset(&karg, 0, sizeof(karg)), the copy_from_user is redundant

Signed-off-by: Meng Xu <mengxu.gatech@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c
index bdffb69..d448fed 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c
@@ -1065,12 +1065,6 @@ _ctl_getiocinfo(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc, void __user *arg)
 {
 	struct mpt3_ioctl_iocinfo karg;
 
-	if (copy_from_user(&karg, arg, sizeof(karg))) {
-		pr_err("failure at %s:%d/%s()!\n",
-		    __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__);
-		return -EFAULT;
-	}
-
 	dctlprintk(ioc, pr_info(MPT3SAS_FMT "%s: enter\n", ioc->name,
 	    __func__));
 
-- 
2.7.4

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* Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: remove redundant copy_from_user in _ctl_getiocinfo
  2017-09-20 15:13 [PATCH] mpt3sas: remove redundant copy_from_user in _ctl_getiocinfo Meng Xu
@ 2017-09-20 15:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
  2017-09-25 23:22 ` Martin K. Petersen
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2017-09-20 15:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Meng Xu
  Cc: hch, sathya.prakash, chaitra.basappa, suganath-prabu.subramani,
	jejb, martin.petersen, MPT-FusionLinux.pdl, linux-scsi,
	linux-kernel, meng.xu, sanidhya, taesoo

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

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* Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: remove redundant copy_from_user in _ctl_getiocinfo
  2017-09-20 15:13 [PATCH] mpt3sas: remove redundant copy_from_user in _ctl_getiocinfo Meng Xu
  2017-09-20 15:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
@ 2017-09-25 23:22 ` Martin K. Petersen
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Martin K. Petersen @ 2017-09-25 23:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Meng Xu
  Cc: hch, sathya.prakash, chaitra.basappa, suganath-prabu.subramani,
	jejb, martin.petersen, MPT-FusionLinux.pdl, linux-scsi,
	linux-kernel, meng.xu, sanidhya, taesoo


Meng,

> Since right after the user copy, we are going to
> memset(&karg, 0, sizeof(karg)), the copy_from_user is redundant

Applied to 4.15/scsi-queue. Thank you!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

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