Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:04:43 -0700
From: Silvio Cesare <silvio@qualys.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: silvio@qualys.com
Subject: [PATCH TRIVIAL] linux-2.5.31/drivers/scsi/sg.c
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remove 1 verify_area call which is directly followed with a __copy_to_user,
and replace with just a copy_to_user.

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Silvio

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diff -u linux-2.5.31/drivers/scsi/sg.c dev/linux-2.5.31/drivers/scsi/sg.c
--- linux-2.5.31/drivers/scsi/sg.c	Sat Aug 10 18:41:28 2002
+++ dev/linux-2.5.31/drivers/scsi/sg.c	Thu Aug 22 11:02:29 2002
@@ -493,9 +493,7 @@
 	    sb_len = (hp->mx_sb_len > sb_len) ? sb_len : hp->mx_sb_len;
 	    len = 8 + (int)srp->sense_b[7]; /* Additional sense length field */
 	    len = (len > sb_len) ? sb_len : len;
-	    if ((err = verify_area(VERIFY_WRITE, hp->sbp, len)))
-		goto err_out;
-	    if (__copy_to_user(hp->sbp, srp->sense_b, len)) {
+	    if (copy_to_user(hp->sbp, srp->sense_b, len)) {
 		err = -EFAULT;
 		goto err_out;
 	    }

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