From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: [merged] net-netfilter-x_tablesc-remove-size-check.patch removed from -mm tree Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 12:04:28 -0800 Message-ID: <20180209200428.BwfJrtOAd%akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reply-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:43102 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752558AbeBIUE3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2018 15:04:29 -0500 Sender: mm-commits-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, davem@davemloft.net, fw@strlen.de, mhocko@suse.com, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org The patch titled Subject: net/netfilter/x_tables.c: remove size check has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was net-netfilter-x_tablesc-remove-size-check.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Michal Hocko Subject: net/netfilter/x_tables.c: remove size check Back in 2002 vmalloc used to BUG on too large sizes. We are much better behaved these days and vmalloc simply returns NULL for those. Remove the check as it simply not needed and the comment is even misleading. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180131081916.GO21609@dhcp22.suse.cz Suggested-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Florian Westphal Cc: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff -puN net/netfilter/x_tables.c~net-netfilter-x_tablesc-remove-size-check net/netfilter/x_tables.c --- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c~net-netfilter-x_tablesc-remove-size-check +++ a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c @@ -1004,10 +1004,6 @@ struct xt_table_info *xt_alloc_table_inf if (sz < sizeof(*info)) return NULL; - /* Pedantry: prevent them from hitting BUG() in vmalloc.c --RR */ - if ((size >> PAGE_SHIFT) + 2 > totalram_pages) - return NULL;