linux-stable/ipc
Davidlohr Bueso 5f2a2d5d42 ipc,msg: drop dst nil validation in copy_msg
d0edd85283 ("ipc: convert invalid scenarios to use WARN_ON") relaxed the
nil dst parameter check, originally being a full BUG_ON.  However, this
check seems quite unnecessary when the only purpose is for
ceckpoint/restore (MSG_COPY flag):

o The copy variable is set initially to nil, apparently as a way of
  ensuring that prepare_copy is previously called.  Which is in fact done,
  unconditionally at the beginning of do_msgrcv.

o There is no concurrency with 'copy' (stack allocated in do_msgrcv).

Furthermore, any errors in 'copy' (and thus prepare_copy/copy_msg) should
always handled by IS_ERR() family.  Therefore remove this check altogether
as it can never occur with the current users.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
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compat.c ipc: resolve shadow warnings 2014-10-14 02:18:23 +02:00
compat_mq.c ipc, kernel: use Linux headers 2014-06-06 16:08:14 -07:00
ipc_sysctl.c ipc/msg: increase MSGMNI, remove scaling 2014-12-13 12:42:52 -08:00
Makefile ipc/msg: increase MSGMNI, remove scaling 2014-12-13 12:42:52 -08:00
mq_sysctl.c ipc: convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table 2014-06-06 16:08:16 -07:00
mqueue.c ipc: modify message queue accounting to not take kernel data structures into account 2015-08-07 04:39:39 +03:00
msg.c Initialize msg/shm IPC objects before doing ipc_addid() 2015-09-30 12:48:40 -04:00
msgutil.c ipc,msg: drop dst nil validation in copy_msg 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
namespace.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-12-16 15:53:03 -08:00
sem.c ipc/sem.c: update/correct memory barriers 2015-08-14 15:56:32 -07:00
shm.c Initialize msg/shm IPC objects before doing ipc_addid() 2015-09-30 12:48:40 -04:00
syscall.c get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments 2013-03-05 15:14:16 -05:00
util.c Initialize msg/shm IPC objects before doing ipc_addid() 2015-09-30 12:48:40 -04:00
util.h ipc: rename ipc_obtain_object 2015-06-30 19:44:58 -07:00