From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D96EC46460 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2018 03:47:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E2F22083C for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2018 03:47:01 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 4E2F22083C Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=davemloft.net Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1731532AbeHNGcM (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2018 02:32:12 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.9]:38218 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725999AbeHNGcM (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2018 02:32:12 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [172.58.41.230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: davem-davemloft) by shards.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 748DB12175DC9; Mon, 13 Aug 2018 20:46:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 20:46:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20180813.204657.372870473276503588.davem@davemloft.net> To: arnd@arndb.de Cc: michael.chan@broadcom.com, vasundhara-v.volam@broadcom.com, gospo@broadcom.com, scott.branden@broadcom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnxt_en: take coredump_record structure off stack From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20180813221256.299221-1-arnd@arndb.de> References: <20180813221256.299221-1-arnd@arndb.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.7 on Emacs 26 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Mon, 13 Aug 2018 20:46:59 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 00:12:45 +0200 > The bnxt_coredump_record structure is very long, causing a warning > about possible stack overflow on 32-bit architectures: > > drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c: In function 'bnxt_get_coredump': > drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c:2989:1: error: the frame size of 1188 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=] > > I could not see any reason to operate on an on-stack copy of the > structure before copying it back into the caller-provided buffer, which > also simplifies the code here. > > Fixes: 6c5657d085ae ("bnxt_en: Add support for ethtool get dump.") > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Applied.