Re: [PATCH] scsi: pmcraid: use normal copy_from_user

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Arnd,

> As pointed out by Al Viro for my previous series, the driver has no need
> to call access_ok() and __copy_from_user()/__copy_to_user(). Changing
> it to regular copy_from_user()/copy_to_user() simplifies the code without
> any real downsides, making it less error-prone at best.
>
> This patch by itself also addresses the warning about the access_ok()
> macro on MIPS, but both fixes improve the code, so ideally we apply
> them both.

Applied patches 1, 3, 4 as well as this one to 4.12/scsi-queue. I took
Christoph's version of patch 2.

Thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering



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