Re: [PATCH] staging: dgnc: fix compile warning frame size is larger than 1024 bytes

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>]

On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 02:41:37PM +0200, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
> fix following warning by dynamically allocating memory:
> dgnc_tty.c:583:1: warning: the frame size of 1060 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
> ---
> This is more of a question. Is this a desired solution to fixing such a
> frame size warning?

This warning is because the kernel uses an 8k stack so you add up all
the stack memory used by each function from the syscall to here.  If
it adds up to more than 8k then it's a bug.  The 1k limit per function
is just a hack to spot where people are maybe being reckless.

There are no kfree()s and this function is called with a spin_lock held
so this patch introduces a couple bugs.

There may be a better way to allocate this.  Like maybe at probe() and
then use spinlocks to serialize access to the buffer.  But sometimes
that's a very bad idea.

It's better if you know the driver a bit and can test things.

regards,
dan carpenter