On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 01:42:42PM +0200, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> Since access_ok() has lost it direction (3rd) parameter there
> seems to be no benefit in calling access_ok() before
> __copy_{to|from}_user(). Simplify code by using the variant of
> these functions that do not start with "__".

Even before there was not much of a benefit.  In general a normal
driver should never use access_ok directly, so this looks like
a good improvement.  But which access_ok calls do you want to keep
and why?

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