[PATCH] fmr pool: remove unnecessary pointer dereference

ib_fmr_pool_map_phys gets the virtual address by pointer but never writes
there, and users (e.g.  srp) seem to assume this and ignore the value
returned.  This patch cleans up the API to get the VA by value, and updates
all users.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Acked-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/fmr_pool.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/fmr_pool.c
index 615fe9cc6c56..86a3b2d401db 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/fmr_pool.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/fmr_pool.c
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_flush_fmr_pool);
 struct ib_pool_fmr *ib_fmr_pool_map_phys(struct ib_fmr_pool *pool_handle,
                                          u64                *page_list,
                                          int                 list_len,
-                                         u64                *io_virtual_address)
+                                         u64                 io_virtual_address)
 {
         struct ib_fmr_pool *pool = pool_handle;
         struct ib_pool_fmr *fmr;
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ struct ib_pool_fmr *ib_fmr_pool_map_phys(struct ib_fmr_pool *pool_handle,
         fmr = ib_fmr_cache_lookup(pool,
                                   page_list,
                                   list_len,
-                                  *io_virtual_address);
+                                  io_virtual_address);
         if (fmr) {
                 /* found in cache */
                 ++fmr->ref_count;
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ struct ib_pool_fmr *ib_fmr_pool_map_phys(struct ib_fmr_pool *pool_handle,
         spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pool->pool_lock, flags);
 
         result = ib_map_phys_fmr(fmr->fmr, page_list, list_len,
-                                 *io_virtual_address);
+                                 io_virtual_address);
 
         if (result) {
                 spin_lock_irqsave(&pool->pool_lock, flags);
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ struct ib_pool_fmr *ib_fmr_pool_map_phys(struct ib_fmr_pool *pool_handle,
         fmr->ref_count = 1;
 
         if (pool->cache_bucket) {
-                fmr->io_virtual_address = *io_virtual_address;
+                fmr->io_virtual_address = io_virtual_address;
                 fmr->page_list_len      = list_len;
                 memcpy(fmr->page_list, page_list, list_len * sizeof(*page_list));