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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Meng Xu <mengxu.gatech@gmail.com>
Cc: sathya.prakash@broadcom.com, chaitra.basappa@broadcom.com,
	suganath-prabu.subramani@broadcom.com, jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	martin.petersen@oracle.com, MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@broadcom.com,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	meng.xu@gatech.edu, sanidhya@gatech.edu, taesoo@gatech.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: downgrade full copy_from_user to access_ok check
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 08:04:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170920150400.GA18201@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1505877071-76996-1-git-send-email-mengxu.gatech@gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:11:11PM -0400, Meng Xu wrote:
> Since right after the user copy, we are going to
> memset(&karg, 0, sizeof(karg)), I guess an access_ok check is enough?

The right thing is to remove it entirely.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-20 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-20  3:11 [PATCH] mpt3sas: downgrade full copy_from_user to access_ok check Meng Xu
2017-09-20 15:04 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2017-09-21  3:26 ` Al Viro
2017-09-21  3:32   ` Meng Xu

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