Re: [PATCH v9 2/3] scsi: sd: Fix build warning in sd_revalidate_disk()

[Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>]

On 8/25/25 3:02 AM, Abinash Singh wrote:
> A build warning was triggered due to excessive stack usage in
> sd_revalidate_disk():
> 
> drivers/scsi/sd.c: In function ‘sd_revalidate_disk.isra’:
> drivers/scsi/sd.c:3824:1: warning: the frame size of 1160 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
> 
> This is caused by a large local struct queue_limits (~400B) allocated
> on the stack. Replacing it with a heap allocation using kmalloc()
> significantly reduces frame usage. Kernel stack is limited (~8 KB),
> and allocating large structs on the stack is discouraged.
> As the function already performs heap allocations (e.g. for buffer),
> this change fits well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Abinash Singh <abinashsinghlalotra@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>

Looks good, but please move this patch as patch 1 in the series to make sure it
can be easily backported. And please add:

Fixes: 804e498e0496 ("sd: convert to the atomic queue limits API")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

before your signed-off.

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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research