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Subject[PATCH v4 2/2] virtio-console: remove unnecessary kmemdup()
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hvc framework will never pass stack memory to the put_chars() function,
So the calling of kmemdup() is unnecessary, we can remove it.

This revert commit c4baad5029 ("virtio-console: avoid DMA from stack")

Signed-off-by: Xianting Tian <xianting.tian@linux.alibaba.com>
---
drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 12 ++----------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
index 7eaf303a7..4ed3ffb1d 100644
--- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
@@ -1117,8 +1117,6 @@ static int put_chars(u32 vtermno, const char *buf, int count)
{
struct port *port;
struct scatterlist sg[1];
- void *data;
- int ret;

if (unlikely(early_put_chars))
return early_put_chars(vtermno, buf, count);
@@ -1127,14 +1125,8 @@ static int put_chars(u32 vtermno, const char *buf, int count)
if (!port)
return -EPIPE;

- data = kmemdup(buf, count, GFP_ATOMIC);
- if (!data)
- return -ENOMEM;
-
- sg_init_one(sg, data, count);
- ret = __send_to_port(port, sg, 1, count, data, false);
- kfree(data);
- return ret;
+ sg_init_one(sg, buf, count);
+ return __send_to_port(port, sg, 1, count, (void *)buf, false);
}

/*
--
2.17.1
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