From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755667AbcCaIKF (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2016 04:10:05 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:37928 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753599AbcCaIIT (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2016 04:08:19 -0400 From: Jiri Slaby To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby Subject: [PATCH 1/4] tty: vt, remove reduntant check Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 10:08:14 +0200 Message-Id: <1459411697-26019-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MAX_NR_CONSOLES and MAX_NR_USER_CONSOLES are both 63 since they were introduced in 1.1.54. And since vc_allocate does: if (currcons >= MAX_NR_CONSOLES) return -ENXIO; if (!vc_cons[currcons].d) { if (currcons >= MAX_NR_USER_CONSOLES && !capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE)) return -EPERM; } the second check is pointless. Remove both the check and the macro MAX_NR_USER_CONSOLES. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Reported-by: Fugang Duan --- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 4 ---- include/uapi/linux/vt.h | 1 - 2 files changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c index 3e3c7575e92d..90305d569c06 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c @@ -768,10 +768,6 @@ int vc_allocate(unsigned int currcons) /* return 0 on success */ struct vc_data *vc; struct vt_notifier_param param; - /* prevent users from taking too much memory */ - if (currcons >= MAX_NR_USER_CONSOLES && !capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE)) - return -EPERM; - /* due to the granularity of kmalloc, we waste some memory here */ /* the alloc is done in two steps, to optimize the common situation of a 25x80 console (structsize=216, screenbuf_size=4000) */ diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/vt.h b/include/uapi/linux/vt.h index 978578bd1895..f69034887e68 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/vt.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/vt.h @@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ */ #define MIN_NR_CONSOLES 1 /* must be at least 1 */ #define MAX_NR_CONSOLES 63 /* serial lines start at 64 */ -#define MAX_NR_USER_CONSOLES 63 /* must be root to allocate above this */ /* Note: the ioctl VT_GETSTATE does not work for consoles 16 and higher (since it returns a short) */ -- 2.7.4