Since right after the user copy, we are going to memset(&karg, 0, sizeof(karg)), the copy_from_user is redundant Signed-off-by: Meng Xu <mengxu.gatech@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c index bdffb69..d448fed 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c @@ -1065,12 +1065,6 @@ _ctl_getiocinfo(struct MPT3SAS_ADAPTER *ioc, void __user *arg) { struct mpt3_ioctl_iocinfo karg; - if (copy_from_user(&karg, arg, sizeof(karg))) { - pr_err("failure at %s:%d/%s()!\n", - __FILE__, __LINE__, __func__); - return -EFAULT; - } - dctlprintk(ioc, pr_info(MPT3SAS_FMT "%s: enter\n", ioc->name, __func__)); -- 2.7.4