Re: [PATCH] bnxt_en: take coredump_record structure off stack

[David Miller]

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 00:12:45 +0200

> The bnxt_coredump_record structure is very long, causing a warning
> about possible stack overflow on 32-bit architectures:
> 
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c: In function 'bnxt_get_coredump':
> drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c:2989:1: error: the frame size of 1188 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
> 
> I could not see any reason to operate on an on-stack copy of the
> structure before copying it back into the caller-provided buffer, which
> also simplifies the code here.
> 
> Fixes: 6c5657d085ae ("bnxt_en: Add support for ethtool get dump.")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Applied.