[PATCH] Staging: dt3155: Remove copy_to_user for ioctl's DT3155_{STOP|START}

H Hartley Sweeten hartleys at visionengravers.com
Wed Jul 21 00:57:52 UTC 2010


The ioctl's DT3155_STOP and DT3155_START are defined with the macro
_IO indicating that they have no parameters. They should not be using
copy_to_user to return data to user space.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten at visionengravers.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de>
Cc: Scott Smedley <ss at aao.gov.au>

---

diff --git a/drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c b/drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c
index fed7e62..5eb1bcd 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c
@@ -570,8 +570,6 @@ static int dt3155_ioctl(struct inode *inode,
 	  return 0;
 
 	quick_stop(minor);
-	if (copy_to_user(up, dts, sizeof(*dts)))
-	    return -EFAULT;
 	return 0;
       }
     case DT3155_START:
@@ -593,8 +591,6 @@ static int dt3155_ioctl(struct inode *inode,
 	  }
 
 	dt3155_init_isr(minor);
-	if (copy_to_user(up, dts, sizeof(*dts)))
-	    return -EFAULT;
 	return 0;
       }
     default:



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