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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 18:13:26 -0400 From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com> To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>, Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>, Baoyou Xie <baoyou.xie@...aro.org>, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: pmcraid: use normal copy_from_user Arnd, > As pointed out by Al Viro for my previous series, the driver has no need > to call access_ok() and __copy_from_user()/__copy_to_user(). Changing > it to regular copy_from_user()/copy_to_user() simplifies the code without > any real downsides, making it less error-prone at best. > > This patch by itself also addresses the warning about the access_ok() > macro on MIPS, but both fixes improve the code, so ideally we apply > them both. Applied patches 1, 3, 4 as well as this one to 4.12/scsi-queue. I took Christoph's version of patch 2. Thanks! -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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