[PATCH 11/44] block: remove a superflous check in blkpg_do_ioctl

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 11/26/20 2:03 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> sector_t is now always a u64, so this check is not needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
> ---
>   block/ioctl.c | 9 ---------
>   1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c
> index 6b785181344fe1..0c09bb7a6ff35f 100644
> --- a/block/ioctl.c
> +++ b/block/ioctl.c
> @@ -35,15 +35,6 @@ static int blkpg_do_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev,
>   	start = p.start >> SECTOR_SHIFT;
>   	length = p.length >> SECTOR_SHIFT;
>   
> -	/* check for fit in a hd_struct */
> -	if (sizeof(sector_t) < sizeof(long long)) {
> -		long pstart = start, plength = length;
> -
> -		if (pstart != start || plength != length || pstart < 0 ||
> -		    plength < 0 || p.pno > 65535)
> -			return -EINVAL;
> -	}
> -
>   	switch (op) {
>   	case BLKPG_ADD_PARTITION:
>   		/* check if partition is aligned to blocksize */
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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