From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 13:11:04 +0000 (+0200) Subject: bnx2fc: reduce stack usage in __bnx2fc_enable X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~176^2~689^2~13 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=720ba808e9ca276919f566bbe2b4e09c79f25faa;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git bnx2fc: reduce stack usage in __bnx2fc_enable When the bnx2fc driver was changed to read the npiv table from nvram, the stack of the __bnx2fc_enable function gained an additional 1028 byte structure that gcc rightfully warns about: drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c: In function '__bnx2fc_enable': drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c:2134:1: warning: the frame size of 1128 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=] In order to avoid a possible kernel stack overflow and to get rid of the warning, this changes the function to use a dynamic allocation of the structure using kzalloc. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Fixes: 2971ff67bd3 ("bnx2fc: Read npiv table from nvram and create vports.") Acked-by: Chad Dupuis Signed-off-by: James Bottomley --- diff --git a/drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c b/drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c index b0bc5ffee903..29a1c03b558e 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c @@ -2091,7 +2091,7 @@ static int __bnx2fc_enable(struct fcoe_ctlr *ctlr) { struct bnx2fc_interface *interface = fcoe_ctlr_priv(ctlr); struct bnx2fc_hba *hba; - struct cnic_fc_npiv_tbl npiv_tbl; + struct cnic_fc_npiv_tbl *npiv_tbl; struct fc_lport *lport; if (interface->enabled == false) { @@ -2123,11 +2123,16 @@ static int __bnx2fc_enable(struct fcoe_ctlr *ctlr) if (!hba->cnic->get_fc_npiv_tbl) goto done; - memset(&npiv_tbl, 0, sizeof(npiv_tbl)); - if (hba->cnic->get_fc_npiv_tbl(hba->cnic, &npiv_tbl)) + npiv_tbl = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cnic_fc_npiv_tbl), GFP_KERNEL); + if (!npiv_tbl) goto done; - bnx2fc_npiv_create_vports(lport, &npiv_tbl); + if (hba->cnic->get_fc_npiv_tbl(hba->cnic, npiv_tbl)) + goto done_free; + + bnx2fc_npiv_create_vports(lport, npiv_tbl); +done_free: + kfree(npiv_tbl); done: return 0; }