Simon Horman <[email protected]> writes:

> This test appears bogus because the e_phnum element of Elf32_Phdr and
> is an unsigned 16bit entity.

The test is a basic sanity check, that apparently can never fail.  So I
see no harm in removing it.

Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>


> This addresses the following warnings:
>
> vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c: In function 'read_elf32':
> vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c:116: warning: comparison is always false due to 
> limited range of data type
> vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c: In function ‘read_elf64’:
> vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c:192: warning: comparison is always false due to 
> limited range of data type
>
> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
> ---
>  vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c |    8 --------
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c
> index 7015894..365e293 100644
> --- a/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c
> +++ b/vmcore-dmesg/vmcore-dmesg.c
> @@ -113,10 +113,6 @@ static void read_elf32(int fd)
>                       ehdr.e_phentsize, sizeof(Elf32_Phdr));
>               exit(12);
>       }
> -     if (ehdr.e_phnum > ULONG_MAX/sizeof(Elf64_Phdr)) {
> -             fprintf(stderr, "Too many elf program header entries\n");
> -             exit(13);
> -     }
>       phdrs32_size = ehdr.e_phnum * sizeof(Elf32_Phdr);
>       phdrs_size = ehdr.e_phnum * sizeof(Elf64_Phdr);
>       phdr32 = calloc(ehdr.e_phnum, sizeof(Elf32_Phdr));
> @@ -189,10 +185,6 @@ static void read_elf64(int fd)
>                       ehdr.e_phentsize, sizeof(Elf64_Phdr));
>               exit(12);
>       }
> -     if (ehdr.e_phnum > ULONG_MAX/sizeof(Elf64_Phdr)) {
> -             fprintf(stderr, "Too many program header entries\n");
> -             exit(13);
> -     }
>       phdrs_size = ehdr.e_phnum * sizeof(Elf64_Phdr);
>       phdr64 = calloc(ehdr.e_phnum, sizeof(Elf64_Phdr));
>       if (!phdr64) {

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