Since we only enforce an upper bound, not a lower bound, a "negative"
length can get through here.

The symptom seen was a warning when we attempt to a kmalloc with an
excessive size.
Reported-by: NToralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>