Re: [PATCH] IB/rxe: avoid putting a large struct rxe_qp on stack

[Doug Ledford]

On 9/19/2016 9:28 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 01:57:26PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> A race condition fix added an rxe_qp structure to the stack in order
>> to be able to perform rollback in rxe_requester(), but the structure
>> is large enough to trigger the warning for possible stack overflow:
>>
>> drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_req.c: In function 'rxe_requester':
>> drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_req.c:757:1: error: the frame size of 2064 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
>>
>> This changes the rollback function to only save the psn inside
>> the qp, which is the only field we access in the rollback_qp
>> anyway.
>>
>> Fixes: 3050b9985024 ("IB/rxe: Fix race condition between requester and completer")
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks Arnd,
> It is much cleaner approach.
> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 

Thanks, applied.

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Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
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