[PATCH v3 1/3] mm/mempolicy: remove redundant check in get_nodes

From: Yisheng Xie
Date: Thu Nov 16 2017 - 20:50:10 EST


We have already checked whether maxnode is a page worth of bits, by:
maxnode > PAGE_SIZE*BITS_PER_BYTE

So no need to check it once more.

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 4ce44d3..6e867a8 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1282,8 +1282,6 @@ static int get_nodes(nodemask_t *nodes, const unsigned long __user *nmask,
/* When the user specified more nodes than supported just check
if the non supported part is all zero. */
if (nlongs > BITS_TO_LONGS(MAX_NUMNODES)) {
- if (nlongs > PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(long))
- return -EINVAL;
for (k = BITS_TO_LONGS(MAX_NUMNODES); k < nlongs; k++) {
unsigned long t;
if (get_user(t, nmask + k))
--
1.8.3.1