test_kmod: remove paranoid UINT_MAX check on uint range processing
authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Fri, 8 Sep 2017 23:16:53 +0000 (16:16 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 9 Sep 2017 01:26:50 +0000 (18:26 -0700)
The UINT_MAX comparison is not needed because "max" is already an unsigned
int, and we expect developer C code max value input to have a sensible 0 -
UINT_MAX range.  Note that if it so happens to be UINT_MAX + 1 it would
lead to an issue, but we expect the developer to know this.

[mcgrof@kernel.org: massaged commit log]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170802211707.28020-2-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
lib/test_kmod.c

index ff9148969b9233ba7502b992b026d31e100be497..67fc7b9f41e3944673e6a8d357b3c9bbdda074ce 100644 (file)
@@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ static int test_dev_config_update_uint_range(struct kmod_test_device *test_dev,
        if (ret)
                return ret;
 
-       if (new < min || new >  max || new > UINT_MAX)
+       if (new < min || new > max)
                return -EINVAL;
 
        mutex_lock(&test_dev->config_mutex);