Re: [PATCH v4 01/10] loop: Factor out loop size validation

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri May 01 2020 - 13:26:42 EST


On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:12:29PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > +static int
> > +loop_validate_size(loff_t size)
> > +{
> > + if ((loff_t)(sector_t)size != size)
> > + return -EFBIG;
> > +
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +
>
> Now sector_t has been switched to u64 unconditionally, do we still need such
> validation?

Oops, completely forgot about that. Yes, we can just kill the
checks.