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[v4,08/10] loop: Rework lo_ioctl() __user argument casting

Message ID 20200429140341.13294-9-maco@android.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
Headers show
Series Add a new LOOP_CONFIGURE ioctl | expand

Commit Message

Martijn Coenen April 29, 2020, 2:03 p.m. UTC 
In preparation for a new ioctl that needs to copy_from_user(); makes the
code easier to read as well.

Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
---
 drivers/block/loop.c | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Comments

Christoph Hellwig May 6, 2020, 6:07 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 04:03:39PM +0200, Martijn Coenen wrote:
> In preparation for a new ioctl that needs to copy_from_user(); makes the
> code easier to read as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Btw, it seems like you have dropped all the reviews from the previous
versions, even if nothing substantial changed.  Please keep them unless
a patch actually is reworked.
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index 60ba1ed95d77..f172a64333aa 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -1659,6 +1659,7 @@  static int lo_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
 	unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 {
 	struct loop_device *lo = bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
+	void __user *argp = (void __user *) arg;
 	int err;
 
 	switch (cmd) {
@@ -1671,21 +1672,19 @@  static int lo_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
 	case LOOP_SET_STATUS:
 		err = -EPERM;
 		if ((mode & FMODE_WRITE) || capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
-			err = loop_set_status_old(lo,
-					(struct loop_info __user *)arg);
+			err = loop_set_status_old(lo, argp);
 		}
 		break;
 	case LOOP_GET_STATUS:
-		return loop_get_status_old(lo, (struct loop_info __user *) arg);
+		return loop_get_status_old(lo, argp);
 	case LOOP_SET_STATUS64:
 		err = -EPERM;
 		if ((mode & FMODE_WRITE) || capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
-			err = loop_set_status64(lo,
-					(struct loop_info64 __user *) arg);
+			err = loop_set_status64(lo, argp);
 		}
 		break;
 	case LOOP_GET_STATUS64:
-		return loop_get_status64(lo, (struct loop_info64 __user *) arg);
+		return loop_get_status64(lo, argp);
 	case LOOP_SET_CAPACITY:
 	case LOOP_SET_DIRECT_IO:
 	case LOOP_SET_BLOCK_SIZE: