[PATCH v2] staging: vchiq_arm: Clear VLA warning

Tobin C. Harding me at tobin.cc
Mon Mar 12 05:46:13 UTC 2018


On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:37:53PM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> The kernel would like to have all stack VLA usage removed[1].  The array
> here is fixed (declared with a const variable) but it appears like a VLA
> to the compiler.  Also, currently we are putting 768 bytes on the
> stack.  This function is only called on the error path so performance is
> not critical, let's just allocate the memory instead of using the
> stack.  This saves stack space and removes the VLA build warning.
> 
> kmalloc a buffer for dumping state instead of using the stack.
> 
> [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me at tobin.cc>
> ---

Drop this please, leaks memory.

thanks,
Tobin.


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