[PATCH 10/11] fs: remove the access_ok() check in ioctl_fiemap

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access_ok just checks we are fed a proper user pointer.  We also do that
in copy_to_user itself, so no need to do this early.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
 fs/ioctl.c | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ioctl.c b/fs/ioctl.c
index ae0d228d18a16..d24afce649037 100644
--- a/fs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ioctl.c
@@ -209,13 +209,9 @@ static int ioctl_fiemap(struct file *filp, struct fiemap __user *ufiemap)
 	fieinfo.fi_extents_max = fiemap.fm_extent_count;
 	fieinfo.fi_extents_start = ufiemap->fm_extents;
 
-	if (fiemap.fm_extent_count != 0 &&
-	    !access_ok(fieinfo.fi_extents_start,
-		       fieinfo.fi_extents_max * sizeof(struct fiemap_extent)))
-		return -EFAULT;
-
 	error = inode->i_op->fiemap(inode, &fieinfo, fiemap.fm_start,
 			fiemap.fm_length);
+
 	fiemap.fm_flags = fieinfo.fi_flags;
 	fiemap.fm_mapped_extents = fieinfo.fi_extents_mapped;
 	if (copy_to_user(ufiemap, &fiemap, sizeof(fiemap)))
-- 
2.26.1




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