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mm/usercopy: Drop extra is_vmalloc_or_module() check

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Previously virt_addr_valid() was insufficient to validate if virt_to_page()
could be called on an address on arm64. This has since been fixed up so
there is no need for the extra check. Drop it.

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Laura Abbott 2017-04-04 14:09:00 -07:00 committed by Kees Cook
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commit 517e1fbeb6
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@ -200,17 +200,6 @@ static inline const char *check_heap_object(const void *ptr, unsigned long n,
{
struct page *page;
/*
* Some architectures (arm64) return true for virt_addr_valid() on
* vmalloced addresses. Work around this by checking for vmalloc
* first.
*
* We also need to check for module addresses explicitly since we
* may copy static data from modules to userspace
*/
if (is_vmalloc_or_module_addr(ptr))
return NULL;
if (!virt_addr_valid(ptr))
return NULL;