From: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@xxxxxxxxx>
The members from 'status' in struct sg_io_hdr to the last are used to
transfer information from kernel to user space. The values that user
space sets are just ignored.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/compat_ioctl.c | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/compat_ioctl.c~sg_io-dont-perform-unneeded-copy-in-compat-code fs/compat_ioctl.c
--- a/fs/compat_ioctl.c~sg_io-dont-perform-unneeded-copy-in-compat-code
+++ a/fs/compat_ioctl.c
@@ -783,12 +783,6 @@ static int sg_ioctl_trans(unsigned int f
if (put_user(compat_ptr(data), &sgio->usr_ptr))
return -EFAULT;
- if (copy_in_user(&sgio->status, &sgio32->status,
- (4 * sizeof(unsigned char)) +
- (2 * sizeof(unsigned short)) +
- (3 * sizeof(int))))
- return -EFAULT;
-
err = sys_ioctl(fd, cmd, (unsigned long) sgio);
if (err >= 0) {
_
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