[ldv-project] [PATCH] NFS: remove unneeded check in decode_devicenotify_args()

[Anna Schumaker]

Hi Alexey,

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 5:17 AM Alexey Khoroshilov
<khoroshilov at ispras.ru> wrote:
>
> Overflow check in not needed anymore after we switch to kmalloc_array().

Don't we still need the overflow check since 'n' is used in the
for-loop end condition farther down in this function?

Thanks,
Anna

>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov at ispras.ru>
> Fixes: a4f743a6bb20 ("NFSv4.1: Convert open-coded array allocation calls to kmalloc_array()")
> ---
>  fs/nfs/callback_xdr.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/callback_xdr.c b/fs/nfs/callback_xdr.c
> index f90de8043b0f..8dcb08e1a885 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/callback_xdr.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/callback_xdr.c
> @@ -271,10 +271,6 @@ __be32 decode_devicenotify_args(struct svc_rqst *rqstp,
>         n = ntohl(*p++);
>         if (n == 0)
>                 goto out;
> -       if (n > ULONG_MAX / sizeof(*args->devs)) {
> -               status = htonl(NFS4ERR_BADXDR);
> -               goto out;
> -       }
>
>         args->devs = kmalloc_array(n, sizeof(*args->devs), GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (!args->devs) {
> --
> 2.7.4
>