From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: gustavo@embeddedor.com, dima@arista.com, johannes.berg@intel.com,
edumazet@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pktgen: use dynamic allocation for debug print buffer
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:25:52 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180313.202552.1990425972566331246.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180313205856.3309750-1-arnd@arndb.de>
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 21:58:39 +0100
> After the removal of the VLA, we get a harmless warning about a large
> stack frame:
>
> net/core/pktgen.c: In function 'pktgen_if_write':
> net/core/pktgen.c:1710:1: error: the frame size of 1076 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
>
> The function was previously shown to be safe despite hitting
> the 1024 bye warning level. To get rid of the annoyging warning,
> while keeping it readable, this changes it to use strndup_user().
>
> Obviously this is not a fast path, so the kmalloc() overhead
> can be disregarded.
>
> Fixes: 35951393bbff ("pktgen: Remove VLA usage")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Applied, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-14 0:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-13 20:58 [PATCH] pktgen: use dynamic allocation for debug print buffer Arnd Bergmann
2018-03-14 0:25 ` David Miller [this message]
2018-03-14 3:02 ` Wang Jian
2018-03-14 8:16 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
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