From bb521c5de070b86a1e049e2dbf62328f717ff1e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nikanth Karthikesan Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:57:09 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] /dev/zero: avoid repeated access_ok() checks In read_zero, we check for access_ok() once for the count bytes. It is unnecessarily checked again in clear_user. Use __clear_user, which does not check for access_ok(). Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed