From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>,
Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>,
"Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@broadcom.com>,
Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>,
Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieterpg@broadcom.com>,
Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, brcm80211-dev-list@broadcom.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH wireless-next] brcmsmac: avoid 512 byte stack variable
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:19:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1360268386.27863.2.camel@joe-AO722> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1360268032-52414-1-git-send-email-tim.gardner@canonical.com>
On Thu, 2013-02-07 at 13:13 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
> Dynamically allocate the probe response template which
> avoids potential stack corruption. Observed with smatch:
trivial:
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/main.c
[]
> @@ -7408,9 +7408,16 @@ brcms_c_bss_update_probe_resp(struct brcms_c_info *wlc,
[]
> + prb_resp = kmalloc(BCN_TMPL_LEN, GFP_ATOMIC);
> + if (!prb_resp) {
> + wiphy_err(wlc->wiphy, "wl: %s: failed to alloc %u bytes\n",
> + __func__, BCN_TMPL_LEN);
Please remove the error message.
alloc's don't need specific OOM messages.
The mm subsystem already provides a standardized
message with a dump_stack().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-07 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-07 20:13 [PATCH wireless-next] brcmsmac: avoid 512 byte stack variable Tim Gardner
2013-02-07 20:19 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2013-02-07 20:23 ` Arend van Spriel
2013-02-07 20:22 ` Arend van Spriel
2013-02-07 20:28 ` [PATCH wireless-next V2] " Tim Gardner
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