Re: [PATCH 4/4] gpio: Remove VLA from stmpe driver

[Phil Reid]

On 10/03/2018 08:10, Laura Abbott wrote:
> The new challenge is to remove VLAs from the kernel
> (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621)
>
> This patch replaces a VLA with an appropriate call to kmalloc_array.
>
> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/gpio/gpio-stmpe.c | 7 ++++++-
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpio-stmpe.c b/drivers/gpio/gpio-stmpe.c
> index f8d7d1cd8488..b7854850bcdb 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpio/gpio-stmpe.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpio/gpio-stmpe.c
> @@ -369,10 +369,14 @@ static irqreturn_t stmpe_gpio_irq(int irq, void *dev)
>   	struct stmpe *stmpe = stmpe_gpio->stmpe;
>   	u8 statmsbreg;
>   	int num_banks = DIV_ROUND_UP(stmpe->num_gpios, 8);
> -	u8 status[num_banks];
> +	u8 *status;
>   	int ret;
>   	int i;
>   
> +	status = kmalloc_array(num_banks, sizeof(*status), GFP_ATOMIC);
> +	if (!status)
> +		return IRQ_NONE;
> +
>   	/*
>   	 * the stmpe_block_read() call below, imposes to set statmsbreg
>   	 * with the register located at the lowest address. As STMPE1600
> @@ -424,6 +428,7 @@ static irqreturn_t stmpe_gpio_irq(int irq, void *dev)
>   		}
>   	}
>   
> +	kfree(status);
>   	return IRQ_HANDLED;
>   }
>   

Doing this in an irq handler seems wrong.
Perhaps better if a buffer is pre-allocated in stmpe_gpio


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Regards
Phil Reid