Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:26:55 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [CHECKER] 37 stack variables >= 1K in 2.4.17 |
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On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 08:56:30PM -0700, Dawson Engler wrote: > > Here are 37 errors where variables >= 1024 bytes are allocated on a function's > > stack. > > Is it possible to get checker to determine the stack depth of a worst > case call chain (excluding interrupts)? I've found that deep call chains > are far more likely to cause stack overflows than short and bounded paths.
Not realistic - we have a recursion through the ->follow_link(), and a lot of stuff can be called from ->follow_link(). We _do_ have a limit on depth of recursion here, but it won't be fun to deal with.
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