This reverts commit
0daa75bf750c400af0a0127fae37cd959d36dee7.
These problems such as:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CACPK8XfUWoOHr-0RwRoYoskia4fbAbZ7DYf5wWBnv6qUnGq18w@mail.gmail.com/
It was introduced by introduced by commit
b1a811633f73 ("block: nbd: add sanity check for first_minor")
and has been have been fixed by commit
e4c4871a7394 ("nbd: fix max value for 'first_minor'").
Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.10+
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wenyang.linux@foxmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
refcount_set(&nbd->refs, 1);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&nbd->list);
disk->major = NBD_MAJOR;
+
+ /* Too big first_minor can cause duplicate creation of
+ * sysfs files/links, since first_minor will be truncated to
+ * byte in __device_add_disk().
+ */
disk->first_minor = index << part_shift;
+ if (disk->first_minor > 0xff) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ goto out_free_idr;
+ }
+
disk->fops = &nbd_fops;
disk->private_data = nbd;
sprintf(disk->disk_name, "nbd%d", index);