[PATCH] mpt3sas: remove redundant copy_from_user in _ctl_getiocinfo

From	Meng Xu <mengxu.gatech@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH] mpt3sas: remove redundant copy_from_user in _ctl_getiocinfo
Date	2017-09-20 17:20 +0200
Message-ID	<urOX8-4Mq-17@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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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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[PATCH] mpt3sas: remove redundant copy_from_user in _ctl_getiocinfo Meng Xu <mengxu.gatech@gmail.com> - 2017-09-20 17:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: remove redundant copy_from_user in _ctl_getiocinfo "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2017-09-26 01:30 +0200

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