From 3393e59963194de900bb0a09b10565c1f62358ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martijn Coenen Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 15:38:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] BACKPORT: loop: Rework lo_ioctl() __user argument casting 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 Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe (cherry picked from commit 571fae6e290d64a3e8132c455e7786c99c467ed1) Bug: 148607611 Change-Id: Ie37d0ed6bfc91d2a55c070446e5c54c8343a7170 --- drivers/block/loop.c | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c index c909a1ae3559..9e4a761a6299 100644 --- a/drivers/block/loop.c +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c @@ -1596,6 +1596,7 @@ 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) { @@ -1608,21 +1609,19 @@ 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: