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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@verizon.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com, leo@netlabs.net
Subject: [PATCH] reduce stack in cdrom/optcd.c
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 22:51:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E7C0808.75B95FB7@verizon.net> (raw)

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Hi,

This reduces stack usage in drivers/cdrom/optcd.c by
dynamically allocating a large (> 2 KB) buffer.

Patch is to 2.5.65.  Please apply.

~Randy

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patch_name:	optcdrom-stack.patch
patch_version:	2003-03-21.22:31:24
author:		Randy.Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>
description:	reduce stack usage in drivers/cdrom/optcd::cdromread()
product:	Linux
product_versions: 2.5.65
changelog:	kmalloc() the large buffer
maintainer:	Leo Spiekman <leo@netlabs.net>
diffstat:	=
 drivers/cdrom/optcd.c |   22 +++++++++++++++++-----
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)


diff -Naur ./drivers/cdrom/optcd.c%CDROM ./drivers/cdrom/optcd.c
--- ./drivers/cdrom/optcd.c%CDROM	Mon Mar 17 13:43:49 2003
+++ ./drivers/cdrom/optcd.c	Fri Mar 21 22:30:08 2003
@@ -1600,13 +1600,17 @@
 
 static int cdromread(unsigned long arg, int blocksize, int cmd)
 {
-	int status;
+	int status, ret = 0;
 	struct cdrom_msf msf;
-	char buf[CD_FRAMESIZE_RAWER];
+	char *buf;
 
 	if (copy_from_user(&msf, (void *) arg, sizeof msf))
 		return -EFAULT;
 
+	buf = kmalloc(CD_FRAMESIZE_RAWER, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!buf)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	bin2bcd(&msf);
 	msf.cdmsf_min1 = 0;
 	msf.cdmsf_sec1 = 0;
@@ -1615,11 +1619,19 @@
 
 	DEBUG((DEBUG_VFS, "read cmd status 0x%x", status));
 
-	if (!sleep_flag_low(FL_DTEN, SLEEP_TIMEOUT))
-		return -EIO;
+	if (!sleep_flag_low(FL_DTEN, SLEEP_TIMEOUT)) {
+		ret = -EIO;
+		goto cdr_free;
+	}
+
 	fetch_data(buf, blocksize);
 
-	return copy_to_user((void *)arg, &buf, blocksize) ? -EFAULT : 0;
+	if (copy_to_user((void *)arg, &buf, blocksize))
+		ret = -EFAULT;
+
+cdr_free:
+	kfree(buf);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 

             reply	other threads:[~2003-03-22  6:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-22  6:51 Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2003-03-22 20:43 ` [PATCH] reduce stack in cdrom/optcd.c Alan Cox
2003-03-22 20:19   ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-03-25 18:29     ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-25 18:43       ` Randy.Dunlap
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-26 20:12 Randy.Dunlap
2003-03-27  6:54 ` Jens Axboe

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