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Subject[PATCH 19/20] hfi1: get rid of pointless access_ok()
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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

pin_user_pages_fast() doesn't need that from its caller.
NB: only reachable from ->ioctl(), and only under USER_DS

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/user_exp_rcv.c | 7 -------
1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/user_exp_rcv.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/user_exp_rcv.c
index 4da03f823474..f81ca20f4b69 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/user_exp_rcv.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/user_exp_rcv.c
@@ -206,13 +206,6 @@ static int pin_rcv_pages(struct hfi1_filedata *fd, struct tid_user_buf *tidbuf)
return -EINVAL;
}

- /* Verify that access is OK for the user buffer */
- if (!access_ok((void __user *)vaddr,
- npages * PAGE_SIZE)) {
- dd_dev_err(dd, "Fail vaddr %p, %u pages, !access_ok\n",
- (void *)vaddr, npages);
- return -EFAULT;
- }
/* Allocate the array of struct page pointers needed for pinning */
pages = kcalloc(npages, sizeof(*pages), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!pages)
--
2.11.0
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