linux-kernel - [PATCH 12/17] mconsole: switch to kernel

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Date:   Fri,  1 Sep 2017 17:39:20 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Cc:     arve@...roid.com, riandrews@...roid.com,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 12/17] mconsole: switch to kernel_read

Instead of playing with address limits.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
---
 arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c
index af326fb6510d..c4d162a94be9 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/mconsole_kern.c
@@ -148,12 +148,7 @@ void mconsole_proc(struct mc_request *req)
 	}
 
 	do {
-		loff_t pos = file->f_pos;
-		mm_segment_t old_fs = get_fs();
-		set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
-		len = vfs_read(file, buf, PAGE_SIZE - 1, &pos);
-		set_fs(old_fs);
-		file->f_pos = pos;
+		len = kernel_read(file, buf, PAGE_SIZE - 1, &file->f_pos);
 		if (len < 0) {
 			mconsole_reply(req, "Read of file failed", 1, 0);
 			goto out_free;
-- 
2.11.0