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authorRoel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>2010-03-11 14:09:44 -0800
committerJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>2010-04-11 09:23:32 -0500
commitf3d6e1dcd291fd0da3accb0d60fbd0d26d2189ed (patch)
tree8c5f8bb01cccd53aae7f4b5137e797b4b1de52f2 /drivers
parent6ce00cae684e7c6310e14634320184ca3c011750 (diff)
[SCSI] pmcraid: redundant check in pmcraid_check_ioctl_buffer()
struct pmcraid_ioctl_header member buffer_length is unsigned, so this check appears redundant. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Anil Ravindranath <anil_ravindranath@pmc-sierra.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c6
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c b/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c
index 53aefffbaea..c44e4ab4e93 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c
@@ -3751,12 +3751,6 @@ static int pmcraid_check_ioctl_buffer(
return -EINVAL;
}
- /* buffer length can't be negetive */
- if (hdr->buffer_length < 0) {
- pmcraid_err("ioctl: invalid buffer length specified\n");
- return -EINVAL;
- }
-
/* check for appropriate buffer access */
if ((_IOC_DIR(cmd) & _IOC_READ) == _IOC_READ)
access = VERIFY_WRITE;