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authorXianting Tian <xianting.tian@linux.alibaba.com>2021-10-15 05:46:58 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-10-21 11:35:04 +0300
commit9db81eca10ba2d84177fa076704db3a5d76863c3 (patch)
tree92e4d16e58c47d4ee2c02b3ecd96df93bae367d3 /drivers
parent0986d7bc5598f5df30e3db777d00e73890c97627 (diff)
downloadlinux-9db81eca10ba2d84177fa076704db3a5d76863c3.tar.xz
virtio-console: remove unnecessary kmemdup()
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 <xianting.tian@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211015024658.1353987-4-xianting.tian@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/virtio_console.c12
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
index 7eaf303a7a86..4ed3ffb1d479 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);
}
/*