diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_pack.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_pack.c
index be6e9857ce2a..a6d1cc804647 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_pack.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/lov/lov_pack.c
@@ -387,18 +387,10 @@ int lov_getstripe(struct lov_object *obj, struct lov_stripe_md *lsm,
 	struct lov_mds_md *lmmk = NULL;
 	int rc, lmmk_size, lmm_size;
 	int lum_size;
-	mm_segment_t seg;
 
 	if (!lsm)
 		return -ENODATA;
 
-	/*
-	 * "Switch to kernel segment" to allow copying from kernel space by
-	 * copy_{to,from}_user().
-	 */
-	seg = get_fs();
-	set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
-
 	/* we only need the header part from user space to get lmm_magic and
 	 * lmm_stripe_count, (the header part is common to v1 and v3)
 	 */
@@ -478,6 +470,5 @@ int lov_getstripe(struct lov_object *obj, struct lov_stripe_md *lsm,
 out_free:
 	kfree(lmmk);
 out:
-	set_fs(seg);
 	return rc;
 }