From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Subject: net/tipc/bcast.c:tipc_bcbearer_send() stack usage
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:47:48 +0100
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>>From net/tipc/bcast.c:

<--  snip  -->

...
int tipc_bcbearer_send(struct sk_buff *buf,
                       struct tipc_bearer *unused1,
                       struct tipc_media_addr *unused2)
{
        static int send_count = 0;

        struct node_map remains;
        struct node_map remains_new;
...

<--  snip  -->


You've just allocated 2*516 Bytes for the two structs from a stack that 
might only be 4 kB altogether.

cu
Adrian

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