[PATCH 11/11] ext4: remove the access_ok() check in ext4_ioctl_get_es_cache

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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/ext4/ioctl.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
index 0746532ba463d..7fded54d2dba9 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
@@ -754,11 +754,6 @@ static int ext4_ioctl_get_es_cache(struct file *filp, unsigned long arg)
 	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;
-
 	if (fieinfo.fi_flags & FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC)
 		filemap_write_and_wait(inode->i_mapping);
 
-- 
2.26.1




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