Merge tag 'nfs-for-4.4-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs

Pull NFS client updates from Trond Myklebust:
 "Highlights include:

  New features:
   - RDMA client backchannel from Chuck
   - Support for NFSv4.2 file CLONE using the btrfs ioctl

  Bugfixes + cleanups:
   - Move socket data receive out of the bottom halves and into a
     workqueue
   - Refactor NFSv4 error handling so synchronous and asynchronous RPC
     handles errors identically.
   - Fix a panic when blocks or object layouts reads return a bad data
     length
   - Fix nfsroot so it can handle a 1024 byte long path.
   - Fix bad usage of page offset in bl_read_pagelist
   - Various NFSv4 callback cleanups+fixes
   - Fix GETATTR bitmap verification
   - Support hexadecimal number for sunrpc debug sysctl files"

* tag 'nfs-for-4.4-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: (53 commits)
  Sunrpc: Supports hexadecimal number for sysctl files of sunrpc debug
  nfs: Fix GETATTR bitmap verification
  nfs: Remove unused xdr page offsets in getacl/setacl arguments
  fs/nfs: remove unnecessary new_valid_dev check
  SUNRPC: fix variable type
  NFS: Enable client side NFSv4.1 backchannel to use other transports
  pNFS/flexfiles: Add support for FF_FLAGS_NO_IO_THRU_MDS
  pNFS/flexfiles: When mirrored, retry failed reads by switching mirrors
  SUNRPC: Remove the TCP-only restriction in bc_svc_process()
  svcrdma: Add backward direction service for RPC/RDMA transport
  xprtrdma: Handle incoming backward direction RPC calls
  xprtrdma: Add support for sending backward direction RPC replies
  xprtrdma: Pre-allocate Work Requests for backchannel
  xprtrdma: Pre-allocate backward rpc_rqst and send/receive buffers
  SUNRPC: Abstract backchannel operations
  xprtrdma: Saving IRQs no longer needed for rb_lock
  xprtrdma: Remove reply tasklet
  xprtrdma: Use workqueue to process RPC/RDMA replies
  xprtrdma: Replace send and receive arrays
  xprtrdma: Refactor reply handler error handling
  ...

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index 3d8e4ffa0a33..ce5a21861074 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -1714,9 +1714,6 @@ nfs_mknod(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode, dev_t rdev)
 	dfprintk(VFS, "NFS: mknod(%s/%lu), %pd\n",
 			dir->i_sb->s_id, dir->i_ino, dentry);
 
-	if (!new_valid_dev(rdev))
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	attr.ia_mode = mode;
 	attr.ia_valid = ATTR_MODE;