Revert "lib: align source before using optimized implementation"

This reverts commit 0719b9c5323a34bca5a689059048cfbb52520344.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/lib/strncpy_from_user.c b/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
index 2cd748031..bb2b201d6 100644
--- a/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
+++ b/lib/strncpy_from_user.c
@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@
 	(((long) dst | (long) src) & (sizeof(long) - 1))
 #endif
 
-#define CHECK_ALIGN(v, a) ((((unsigned long)(v)) & ((a) - 1)) == 0)
-
 /*
  * Do a strncpy, return length of string without final '\0'.
  * 'count' is the user-supplied count (return 'count' if we
@@ -36,21 +34,6 @@ static inline long do_strncpy_from_user(char *dst, const char __user *src, long
 	if (IS_UNALIGNED(src, dst))
 		goto byte_at_a_time;
 
-	/* Copy a byte at a time until we align to 8 bytes */
-	while (max && (!CHECK_ALIGN(src + res, 8))) {
-		char c;
-		int ret;
-
-		ret = __get_user(c, src + res);
-		if (ret)
-			return -ret;
-		dst[res] = c;
-		if (!c)
-			return res;
-		res++;
-		max--;
-	}
-
 	while (max >= sizeof(unsigned long)) {
 		unsigned long c, data;