linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mpt3sas: remove redundant copy_from_user in _ctl

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Message-ID: <yq160c6e538.fsf@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon, 25 Sep 2017 19:22:35 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Meng Xu <mengxu.gatech@...il.com>
Cc:     hch@...radead.org, 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: remove redundant copy_from_user in _ctl_getiocinfo


Meng,

> Since right after the user copy, we are going to
> memset(&karg, 0, sizeof(karg)), the copy_from_user is redundant

Applied to 4.15/scsi-queue. Thank you!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering