Re: [PATCH] crypto: ccree - reduce kernel stack usage with clang

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Fri Mar 22 2019 - 09:04:39 EST


On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 10:09:44AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Building with clang for a 32-bit architecture runs over the stack
> frame limit in the setkey function:
>
> drivers/crypto/ccree/cc_cipher.c:318:12: error: stack frame size of 1152 bytes in function 'cc_cipher_setkey' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than=]
>
> The problem is that there are two large variables: the temporary
> 'tmp' array and the SHASH_DESC_ON_STACK() declaration. Moving
> the first into the block in which it is used reduces the
> total frame size to 768 bytes, which seems more reasonable
> and is under the warning limit.
>
> Fixes: 63ee04c8b491 ("crypto: ccree - add skcipher support")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/crypto/ccree/cc_cipher.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Patch applied. Thanks.
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