Re: [PATCH] [v2] net/mlx5e: reduce stack usage in mlx5_eswitch_termtbl_create

From: Saeed Mahameed
Date: Tue Jun 18 2019 - 16:11:05 EST


On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 13:15 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Putting an empty 'mlx5_flow_spec' structure on the stack is a bit
> wasteful and causes a warning on 32-bit architectures when building
> with clang -fsanitize-coverage:
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads_termtbl.c:
> In function 'mlx5_eswitch_termtbl_create':
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/eswitch_offloads_termtbl.c:90
> :1: error: the frame size of 1032 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-
> Werror=frame-larger-than=]
>
> Since the structure is never written to, we can statically allocate
> it to avoid the stack usage. To be on the safe side, mark all
> subsequent function arguments that we pass it into as 'const'
> as well.
>
> Fixes: 10caabdaad5a ("net/mlx5e: Use termination table for VLAN push
> actions")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Mark Bloch <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to net-next-mlx5 and will be submitted to net-next soon.

Thanks,
Saeed.