If you run a program compiled with OpenWatcom for Linux on a filesystem on NVMe, all "stat" syscalls fail with -EOVERFLOW. The reason is that the NVMe driver allocates a device with the major number 259 and it doesn't pass the "old_valid_dev" test. This patch removes the tests - it's better to wrap around than to return an error. (note that cp_old_stat also doesn't report an error and wraps the number around) Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/stat.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) Index: linux-5.17.2/fs/stat.c =================================================================== --- linux-5.17.2.orig/fs/stat.c 2022-04-10 21:39:27.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-5.17.2/fs/stat.c 2022-04-10 21:42:43.000000000 +0200 @@ -334,7 +334,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(fstat, unsigned int, fd, # define choose_32_64(a,b) b #endif -#define valid_dev(x) choose_32_64(old_valid_dev(x),true) #define encode_dev(x) choose_32_64(old_encode_dev,new_encode_dev)(x) #ifndef INIT_STRUCT_STAT_PADDING @@ -345,8 +344,6 @@ static int cp_new_stat(struct kstat *sta { struct stat tmp; - if (!valid_dev(stat->dev) || !valid_dev(stat->rdev)) - return -EOVERFLOW; #if BITS_PER_LONG == 32 if (stat->size > MAX_NON_LFS) return -EOVERFLOW; @@ -644,9 +641,6 @@ static int cp_compat_stat(struct kstat * { struct compat_stat tmp; - if (!old_valid_dev(stat->dev) || !old_valid_dev(stat->rdev)) - return -EOVERFLOW; - memset(&tmp, 0, sizeof(tmp)); tmp.st_dev = old_encode_dev(stat->dev); tmp.st_ino = stat->ino;