UBI: add a commentary about allocating VID header buffer on stack

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
index 668d24005106ceb05452cb09021723d101fcb5ce..65915a649861b9664bde93b0020fe13b563c9791 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c
@@ -480,6 +480,13 @@ static int nor_erase_prepare(struct ubi_device *ubi, int pnum)
        size_t written;
        loff_t addr;
        uint32_t data = 0;
+       /*
+        * Note, we cannot generally define VID header buffers on stack,
+        * because of the way we deal with these buffers (see the header
+        * comment in this file). But we know this is a NOR-specific piece of
+        * code, so we can do this. But yes, this is error-prone and we should
+        * (pre-)allocate VID header buffer instead.
+        */
        struct ubi_vid_hdr vid_hdr;
 
        /*