Re: [BUG?] inquiry_cache_read: stack size

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon Mar 08 2010 - 18:55:34 EST


On 03/08/10 14:38, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> Hi Marcel,
> I'm compiling current -git kernel and noticed this warning:
>
> net/bluetooth/hci_sysfs.c: In function 'inquiry_cache_read':
> net/bluetooth/hci_sysfs.c:441: warning: the frame size of 4208 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes
>
> which is caused by:
>
> commit ca325f698996c1a0770a67f41e7dc97a007d8bc2
> Author: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon Feb 8 16:22:31 2010 +0100
>
> Bluetooth: Convert inquiry cache to use debugfs instead of sysfs
>
> The output of the inquiry cache is only useful for debugging
> purposes and so move it into debugfs.
>
> This buffer on the stack:
>
> char buf[4096];
>
> is likelly to cause troubles, since the kernel space stack is limited to
> 8K or even 4K (4KSTACKS).

Patch was on netdev mailing list on TUE Mar. 2, 2010.
Please see http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg122906.html

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~Randy
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