Re: [PATCH] fat: avoid stack overflow warning

From: OGAWA Hirofumi

Date: Wed Jun 03 2026 - 02:17:56 EST


Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Building the fat kunit tests on with -fsanitize=alignment
> reveals some rather excessive stack usage:
>
> fs/fat/fat_test.c: In function 'fat_clus_to_blknr_test':
> fs/fat/fat_test.c:33:1: error: the frame size of 4736 bytes is larger than 1536 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
> 33 | }
> | ^
> fs/fat/fat_test.c: In function 'fat_get_blknr_offset_test':
> fs/fat/fat_test.c:52:1: error: the frame size of 4800 bytes is larger than 1536 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
>
> The problem is clearly related to the on-stack copy of a local
> msdos_sb_info structure. Avoid this by making that copy
> 'static const' and changing the called functions to accept
> a constant input.

Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/fat/fat.h | 4 ++--
> fs/fat/fat_test.c | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/fat/fat.h b/fs/fat/fat.h
> index 5a58f0bf8ce8..52bced59abe4 100644
> --- a/fs/fat/fat.h
> +++ b/fs/fat/fat.h
> @@ -247,13 +247,13 @@ static inline unsigned char fat_checksum(const __u8 *name)
> return s;
> }
>
> -static inline sector_t fat_clus_to_blknr(struct msdos_sb_info *sbi, int clus)
> +static inline sector_t fat_clus_to_blknr(const struct msdos_sb_info *sbi, int clus)
> {
> return ((sector_t)clus - FAT_START_ENT) * sbi->sec_per_clus
> + sbi->data_start;
> }
>
> -static inline void fat_get_blknr_offset(struct msdos_sb_info *sbi,
> +static inline void fat_get_blknr_offset(const struct msdos_sb_info *sbi,
> loff_t i_pos, sector_t *blknr, int *offset)
> {
> *blknr = i_pos >> sbi->dir_per_block_bits;
> diff --git a/fs/fat/fat_test.c b/fs/fat/fat_test.c
> index 4eeed9dca549..9583ce66dca3 100644
> --- a/fs/fat/fat_test.c
> +++ b/fs/fat/fat_test.c
> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ static void fat_checksum_test(struct kunit *test)
>
> static void fat_clus_to_blknr_test(struct kunit *test)
> {
> - struct msdos_sb_info sbi = {
> + static const struct msdos_sb_info sbi = {
> .sec_per_clus = 4,
> .data_start = 100,
> };
> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ static void fat_clus_to_blknr_test(struct kunit *test)
>
> static void fat_get_blknr_offset_test(struct kunit *test)
> {
> - struct msdos_sb_info sbi = {
> + static const struct msdos_sb_info sbi = {
> .dir_per_block = 16,
> .dir_per_block_bits = 4,
> };

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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>