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From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date:   Fri, 16 Dec 2022 14:05:46 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fbdev: omapfb: avoid stack overflow warning
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Cc:     Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
        Zhang Qilong <zhangqilong3@huawei.com>,
        linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Hi Arnd,

On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 6:05 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> The dsi_irq_stats structure is a little too big to fit on the
> stack of a 32-bit task, depending on the specific gcc options:
>
> fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/dsi.c: In function 'dsi_dump_dsidev_irqs':
> fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/dsi.c:1621:1: error: the frame size of 1064 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
>
> Since this is only a debugfs file, performance is not critical,
> so just dynamically allocate it, and print an error message
> in there in place of a failure code when the allocation fails.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Thanks for your patch!

> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/dsi.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/dsi.c
> @@ -1536,22 +1536,28 @@ static void dsi_dump_dsidev_irqs(struct platform_device *dsidev,
>  {
>         struct dsi_data *dsi = dsi_get_dsidrv_data(dsidev);
>         unsigned long flags;
> -       struct dsi_irq_stats stats;
> +       struct dsi_irq_stats *stats;
> +
> +       stats = kzalloc(sizeof(*stats), GFP_KERNEL);
> +       if (!stats) {
> +               seq_printf(s, "out of memory\n");

I guess this is futile?
No need to increase kernel size for OOM messages.

> +               return;
> +       }
>
>         spin_lock_irqsave(&dsi->irq_stats_lock, flags);

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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