Re: [PATCH 0/2] nbd: fix sanity check for first_minor

[Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>]

On 10/21/21 16:13, yukuai (C) wrote:
> On 2021/10/21 20:35, Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> > On 10/21/21 15:29, Yu Kuai wrote:
> > > Yu Kuai (2):
> > >    nbd: fix max value for 'first_minor'
> > >    nbd: fix possible overflow for 'first_minor' in nbd_dev_add()
> > >
> > >   drivers/block/nbd.c | 6 +++---
> > >   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > Hi, Yu!
> >
> > Thank you for the fix, but this wrong check should be just removed, 
> > since root case of wrong sysfs file creation was fixed, as Christoph 
> > said [1]
>
> Hi, Pavel
>
> Thanks for your response, with the root cause fixed, patch 1 is not
> needed anymore. However, the overflow case in patch 2 is still
> possible.
>
> Does anyone plan to remove the checking?


Hm, I thought it was already removed, but I was wrong, I guess. Let's 
see what Christoph thinks about this check.

Maybe add_disk() error handling is still not in Linus tree, I haven't 
checked yet. Sysfs warnings _should_ be fixed by proper error handling, 
but maybe there is another problem somewhere...




With regards,
Pavel Skripkin