From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Just use plain copy_from_user() and get_user(). Note that while a buf-derived pointer gets stored into ->dxferp, all places that actually use the resulting value feed it either to import_iovec() or to import_single_range(), and both will do validation. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/sg.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sg.c b/drivers/scsi/sg.c index 9f6534a025cd..f3d090b93cdf 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/sg.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/sg.c @@ -612,11 +612,9 @@ sg_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t * ppos) scsi_block_when_processing_errors(sdp->device))) return -ENXIO; - if (!access_ok(buf, count)) - return -EFAULT; /* protects following copy_from_user()s + get_user()s */ if (count < SZ_SG_HEADER) return -EIO; - if (__copy_from_user(&old_hdr, buf, SZ_SG_HEADER)) + if (copy_from_user(&old_hdr, buf, SZ_SG_HEADER)) return -EFAULT; blocking = !(filp->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK); if (old_hdr.reply_len < 0) @@ -626,7 +624,7 @@ sg_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t * ppos) return -EIO; /* The minimum scsi command length is 6 bytes. */ buf += SZ_SG_HEADER; - if (__get_user(opcode, buf)) + if (get_user(opcode, buf)) return -EFAULT; if (!(srp = sg_add_request(sfp))) { @@ -676,7 +674,7 @@ sg_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t * ppos) hp->flags = input_size; /* structure abuse ... */ hp->pack_id = old_hdr.pack_id; hp->usr_ptr = NULL; - if (__copy_from_user(cmnd, buf, cmd_size)) + if (copy_from_user(cmnd, buf, cmd_size)) return -EFAULT; /* * SG_DXFER_TO_FROM_DEV is functionally equivalent to SG_DXFER_FROM_DEV, -- 2.11.0