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Re: [PATCH] sysctl: remove duplicate UINT_MAX check on do_proc_douintvec_conv()

From Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] sysctl: remove duplicate UINT_MAX check on do_proc_douintvec_conv()
Date 2017-09-20 00:00 +0200
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On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 12:29 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
> do_proc_douintvec_conv() has two UINT_MAX checks, we can remove one.
> This has no functional changes other than fixing a compiler warning:
>
> kernel/sysctl.c:2190]: (warning) Identical condition '*lvalp>UINT_MAX', second condition is always false
>
> Reported-by: David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>

Fixes: 4f2fec00afa60 ("sysctl: simplify unsigned int support")
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

-Kees

> ---
>  kernel/sysctl.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
> index 4c08ed4a379e..0da31bbbff18 100644
> --- a/kernel/sysctl.c
> +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
> @@ -2181,8 +2181,6 @@ static int do_proc_douintvec_conv(unsigned long *lvalp,
>                                   int write, void *data)
>  {
>         if (write) {
> -               if (*lvalp > UINT_MAX)
> -                       return -EINVAL;
>                 if (*lvalp > UINT_MAX)
>                         return -EINVAL;
>                 *valp = *lvalp;
> --
> 2.14.0
>



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Kees Cook
Pixel Security

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[PATCH] sysctl: remove duplicate UINT_MAX check on do_proc_douintvec_conv() "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2017-09-19 09:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] sysctl: remove duplicate UINT_MAX check on do_proc_douintvec_conv() Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2017-09-20 00:00 +0200

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