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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Erich Chen <erich@areca.com.tw>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: 2.6.11-mm4: drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr.c: enormous stack usage
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:39:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050319133951.GK3143@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050316040654.62881834.akpm@osdl.org>

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:06:54AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>...
> Changes since 2.6.11-mm3:
>...
> +areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch
> 
>  Updated version of this driver.
>...

<--  snip  -->

...
static int arcmsr_iop_ioctlcmd(PACB pACB, int ioctl_cmd, void *arg)
{
...
uint8_t tmpQbuffer[1032];
...
uint8_t tmpuserbuffer[1032];
...
}
...

<--  snip  -->


1kB allocations from the stack aren't a good idea considering that you 
might have only a 4kB stack altogether.


Running "make checkstack" after compiling the kernel helps you finding 
such problems.


cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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       reply	other threads:[~2005-03-19 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20050316040654.62881834.akpm@osdl.org>
2005-03-19 13:39 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
     [not found]   ` <002c01c52df4$37620cd0$9300a8c0@erich2003>
2005-03-22 15:56     ` 2.6.11-mm4: drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr.c: enormous stack usage Adrian Bunk

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