access_ok just checks we are fed a proper user pointer. We also do that in copy_to_user itself, so no need to do this early. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c index 0746532ba463d..7fded54d2dba9 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c @@ -754,11 +754,6 @@ static int ext4_ioctl_get_es_cache(struct file *filp, unsigned long arg) fieinfo.fi_extents_max = fiemap.fm_extent_count; fieinfo.fi_extents_start = ufiemap->fm_extents; - if (fiemap.fm_extent_count != 0 && - !access_ok(fieinfo.fi_extents_start, - fieinfo.fi_extents_max * sizeof(struct fiemap_extent))) - return -EFAULT; - if (fieinfo.fi_flags & FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC) filemap_write_and_wait(inode->i_mapping); -- 2.26.1