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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c index 9a8579e56c26..921d955b7208 100644 --- a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c @@ -798,8 +798,6 @@ _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name, size_t offset, u32 opt_flags) { struct firmware *fw = NULL; - struct cred *kern_cred = NULL; - const struct cred *old_cred; bool nondirect = false; int ret; @@ -816,18 +814,6 @@ _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name, if (ret <= 0) /* error or already assigned */ goto out; - /* - * We are about to try to access the firmware file. Because we may have been - * called by a driver when serving an unrelated request from userland, we use - * the kernel credentials to read the file. - */ - kern_cred = prepare_kernel_cred(NULL); - if (!kern_cred) { - ret = -ENOMEM; - goto out; - } - old_cred = override_creds(kern_cred); - ret = fw_get_filesystem_firmware(device, fw->priv, "", NULL); /* Only full reads can support decompression, platform, and sysfs. */ @@ -858,8 +844,6 @@ _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name, } else ret = assign_fw(fw, device); - revert_creds(old_cred); - out: if (ret < 0) { fw_abort_batch_reqs(fw); |