From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] crash_dump: Remove redundant less-than-zero check
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:51:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260228085136.861971-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev> (raw)
'key_count' is an 'unsigned int' and cannot be less than zero. Remove
the redundant condition.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.c b/kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.c
index 1f4067fbdb94..27a144920562 100644
--- a/kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.c
+++ b/kernel/crash_dump_dm_crypt.c
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static int restore_dm_crypt_keys_to_thread_keyring(void)
addr = dm_crypt_keys_addr;
dm_crypt_keys_read((char *)&key_count, sizeof(key_count), &addr);
- if (key_count < 0 || key_count > KEY_NUM_MAX) {
+ if (key_count > KEY_NUM_MAX) {
kexec_dprintk("Failed to read the number of dm-crypt keys\n");
return -1;
}
--
Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
GPG: 1D60 735E 8AEF 3BE4 73B6 9D84 7336 78FD 8DFE EAD4
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2026-02-28 8:51 Thorsten Blum [this message]
2026-02-28 19:02 ` [PATCH] crash_dump: Remove redundant less-than-zero check Andrew Morton
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