[PATCH 2/2] virtio-console: remove unnecessary kmemdup()

[Xianting Tian]

hvc framework will never pass stack memory to the put_chars() function,
So the calling of kmemdup() is unnecessary, remove it.

Fixes: 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