From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Cc: hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au, jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: [PATRCH] janitor: hermes: delete verify_area call
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:59:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030925215902.57f53822.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
Hi,
Please apply to 2.6.0-test5-current.
Thanks,
--
~Randy
From: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
IMO, that verify_area wasn't needed.
linux-260-t5bk12-kj-rddunlap/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c | 4 ----
1 files changed, 4 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c~net_wireless_orinoco_verify drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c
--- linux-260-t5bk12-kj/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c~net_wireless_orinoco_verify 2003-09-25 16:03:17.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-260-t5bk12-kj-rddunlap/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c 2003-09-25 16:03:17.000000000 -0700
@@ -3833,10 +3833,6 @@ orinoco_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, st
{ SIOCIWLASTPRIV, 0, 0, "dump_recs" },
};
- err = verify_area(VERIFY_WRITE, wrq->u.data.pointer, sizeof(privtab));
- if (err)
- break;
-
wrq->u.data.length = sizeof(privtab) / sizeof(privtab[0]);
if (copy_to_user(wrq->u.data.pointer, privtab, sizeof(privtab)))
err = -EFAULT;
_
next reply other threads:[~2003-09-26 4:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-26 4:59 Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2003-09-29 5:29 ` [PATRCH] janitor: hermes: delete verify_area call David Gibson
2003-09-29 20:06 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-09-30 4:51 ` David Gibson
2003-09-30 5:15 ` David S. Miller
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