hvc framework will never pass stack memory to the put_chars() function, So the calling of kmemdup() is unnecessary, we can remove it.
This revert commit c4baad5029 ("virtio-console: avoid DMA from stack") Signed-off-by: Xianting Tian <xianting.t...@linux.alibaba.com> --- drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 12 ++---------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c index 7eaf303a7..4ed3ffb1d 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); } /* -- 2.17.1