[PATCH v11 3/3] virtio-console: remove unnecessary kmemdup()
From: Xianting Tian <hidden>
Date: 2021-10-15 02:47:10
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lkml
Subsystem:
char and misc drivers, the rest, virtio console driver · Maintainers:
Arnd Bergmann, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Linus Torvalds, Amit Shah
This revert commit c4baad5029 ("virtio-console: avoid DMA from stack")
hvc framework will never pass stack memory to the put_chars() function,
So the calling of kmemdup() is unnecessary, we can remove it.
Signed-off-by: Xianting Tian <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Shile Zhang <redacted>
---
drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 12 ++----------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
index 7eaf303a7..4ed3ffb1d 100644
--- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c@@ -1117,8 +1117,6 @@ static int put_chars(u32 vtermno, const char *buf, int count) { struct port *port; struct scatterlist sg[1]; - void *data; - int ret; if (unlikely(early_put_chars)) return early_put_chars(vtermno, buf, count);
@@ -1127,14 +1125,8 @@ static int put_chars(u32 vtermno, const char *buf, int count) if (!port) return -EPIPE; - data = kmemdup(buf, count, GFP_ATOMIC); - if (!data) - return -ENOMEM; - - sg_init_one(sg, data, count); - ret = __send_to_port(port, sg, 1, count, data, false); - kfree(data); - return ret; + sg_init_one(sg, buf, count); + return __send_to_port(port, sg, 1, count, (void *)buf, false); } /*
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