From: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org
The access_ok read check can be directly done in copy_from_user since a failure of access_ok is handled the same way as an error in __copy_from_user.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner lindner_marek@yahoo.de --- net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c | 7 +------ 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c b/net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c index 88ab26f..3b04fff 100644 --- a/net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c @@ -187,12 +187,7 @@ static ssize_t bat_socket_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buff, skb_reserve(skb, sizeof(struct ethhdr)); icmp_packet = (struct icmp_packet_rr *)skb_put(skb, packet_len);
- if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, buff, packet_len)) { - len = -EFAULT; - goto free_skb; - } - - if (__copy_from_user(icmp_packet, buff, packet_len)) { + if (copy_from_user(icmp_packet, buff, packet_len)) { len = -EFAULT; goto free_skb; }