From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> No, you do NOT need to "protect copy from user" that way. Incidentally, your userland ABI stinks. I understand that you wanted to accept "reset" and "reset\n" as equivalent, but I suspect that accepting "reset this, you !@^!@!" had been an accident. Nothing to do about that now - it is a userland ABI... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c | 12 ------------ 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c index 8a6e02aa553f..5a754fb5f854 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_debugfs.c @@ -2166,10 +2166,6 @@ lpfc_debugfs_lockstat_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, char *pbuf; int i; - /* Protect copy from user */ - if (!access_ok(buf, nbytes)) - return -EFAULT; - memset(mybuf, 0, sizeof(mybuf)); if (copy_from_user(mybuf, buf, nbytes)) @@ -2621,10 +2617,6 @@ lpfc_debugfs_multixripools_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, if (nbytes > 64) nbytes = 64; - /* Protect copy from user */ - if (!access_ok(buf, nbytes)) - return -EFAULT; - memset(mybuf, 0, sizeof(mybuf)); if (copy_from_user(mybuf, buf, nbytes)) @@ -2787,10 +2779,6 @@ lpfc_debugfs_scsistat_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, char mybuf[6] = {0}; int i; - /* Protect copy from user */ - if (!access_ok(buf, nbytes)) - return -EFAULT; - if (copy_from_user(mybuf, buf, (nbytes >= sizeof(mybuf)) ? (sizeof(mybuf) - 1) : nbytes)) return -EFAULT; -- 2.11.0