Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | [PATCH] usnic: avoid overly large buffers on stack | Date | Fri, 6 Sep 2019 17:57:17 +0200 |
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It's never a good idea to put a 1000-byte buffer on the kernel stack. The compiler warns about this instance when usnic_ib_log_vf() gets inlined into usnic_ib_pci_probe():
drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_main.c:543:12: error: stack frame size of 1044 bytes in function 'usnic_ib_pci_probe' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than=]
As this is only called for debugging purposes in the setup path, it's trivial to convert to a dynamic allocation.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_main.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_main.c index 03f54eb9404b..c9abe1c01e4e 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_main.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_main.c @@ -89,9 +89,15 @@ static void usnic_ib_dump_vf(struct usnic_ib_vf *vf, char *buf, int buf_sz) void usnic_ib_log_vf(struct usnic_ib_vf *vf) { - char buf[1000]; - usnic_ib_dump_vf(vf, buf, sizeof(buf)); + char *buf = kzalloc(1000, GFP_KERNEL); + + if (!buf) + return; + + usnic_ib_dump_vf(vf, buf, 1000); usnic_dbg("%s\n", buf); + + kfree(buf); } /* Start of netdev section */ -- 2.20.0
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