linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: downgrade full copy_from_user to access

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Date:   Wed, 20 Sep 2017 08:04:00 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Meng Xu <mengxu.gatech@...il.com>
Cc:     sathya.prakash@...adcom.com, chaitra.basappa@...adcom.com,
        suganath-prabu.subramani@...adcom.com, jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        martin.petersen@...cle.com, MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@...adcom.com,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        meng.xu@...ech.edu, sanidhya@...ech.edu, taesoo@...ech.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: downgrade full copy_from_user to access_ok check

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:11:11PM -0400, Meng Xu wrote:
> Since right after the user copy, we are going to
> memset(&karg, 0, sizeof(karg)), I guess an access_ok check is enough?

The right thing is to remove it entirely.