From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lee.jones@linaro.org (Lee Jones) Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 10:17:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH V2] mfd: abx500-core: Fix compiler warning larger stack frame In-Reply-To: <537C447D.7070406@aurabindo.in> References: <536E1543.3090107@aurabindo.in> <20140520152054.GB24991@lee--X1> <537C447D.7070406@aurabindo.in> Message-ID: <20140521091751.GC6679@lee--X1> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org > Change from V1 -> V2: Fix a potential null pointer dereference as reported by kbuild test robot . > > Inorder to report the kzalloc failure, I have just used a pr_debug statement. If it looks ugly, should I change the function's return value to int and give out an -ENOMEM ? Yes, please do that - and obviously add the checks to the calling code. > From 6615c7a995a6bb4dcf4c1e9ac59bca823ec821a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Aurabindo J > Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 11:18:10 +0530 > Subject: [PATCH] mfd: abx500-core: Fix compiler warning larger stack frame > > On systems with CONFIG_FRAME_WARN=1024, compiler warns the allocation of > an object of struct device on stack. Make the allocation dynamically to > fix the warning. > > Signed-off-by: Aurabindo J > --- > drivers/mfd/abx500-core.c | 19 ++++++++++++------- > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/mfd/abx500-core.c b/drivers/mfd/abx500-core.c > index f3a15aa..5e5098d 100644 > --- a/drivers/mfd/abx500-core.c > +++ b/drivers/mfd/abx500-core.c > @@ -154,16 +154,21 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(abx500_startup_irq_enabled); > void abx500_dump_all_banks(void) > { > struct abx500_ops *ops; > - struct device dummy_child = {NULL}; > + struct device *dummy_child; > struct abx500_device_entry *dev_entry; > > - list_for_each_entry(dev_entry, &abx500_list, list) { > - dummy_child.parent = dev_entry->dev; > - ops = &dev_entry->ops; > + dummy_child = kzalloc(sizeof(struct device), GFP_KERNEL); > + if (dummy_child != NULL) { > + list_for_each_entry(dev_entry, &abx500_list, list) { > + dummy_child->parent = dev_entry->dev; > + ops = &dev_entry->ops; > > - if ((ops != NULL) && (ops->dump_all_banks != NULL)) > - ops->dump_all_banks(&dummy_child); > - } > + if ((ops != NULL) && (ops->dump_all_banks != NULL)) > + ops->dump_all_banks(dummy_child); > + } > + kfree(dummy_child); > + } else > + pr_debug("kzalloc failure in abx500_dump_all_banks\n"); > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL(abx500_dump_all_banks); > -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org ? Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog