If 'part_shift' is not zero, then 'index << part_shift' might overflow to a value that is not greater than '0xfffff', then sysfs might complains about duplicate creation. Fixes: b0d9111a2d53 ("nbd: use an idr to keep track of nbd devices") Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/nbd.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c index 8f2c17a33c5b..03a10a87500d 100644 --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c @@ -1808,11 +1808,11 @@ static struct nbd_device *nbd_dev_add(int index, unsigned int refs) disk->major = NBD_MAJOR; /* Too big first_minor can cause duplicate creation of - * sysfs files/links, since MKDEV() expect that the max bits of - * first_minor is 20. + * sysfs files/links, since index << part_shift might overflow, or + * MKDEV() expect that the max bits of first_minor is 20. */ disk->first_minor = index << part_shift; - if (disk->first_minor > 0xfffff) { + if (disk->first_minor < index || disk->first_minor > 0xfffff) { err = -EINVAL; goto out_free_idr; } -- 2.31.1