From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
kvm_dev_ioctl casts the arg value to void __user *, just to recast it
again to long. This seems unnecessary.
According to objdump the binary code on x86 is unchanged by this patch.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
---
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 3 +--
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 2d29e26..764d702 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1179,7 +1179,6 @@ static int kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vm(void)
static long kvm_dev_ioctl(struct file *filp,
unsigned int ioctl, unsigned long arg)
{
- void __user *argp = (void __user *)arg;
long r = -EINVAL;
switch (ioctl) {
@@ -1196,7 +1195,7 @@ static long kvm_dev_ioctl(struct file *filp,
r = kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vm();
break;
case KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION:
- r = kvm_dev_ioctl_check_extension((long)argp);
+ r = kvm_dev_ioctl_check_extension(arg);
break;
case KVM_GET_VCPU_MMAP_SIZE:
r = -EINVAL;
--
1.5.6
--
