Re: [PATCH] ubifs: replay: fix high stack usage

[Richard Weinberger]

Am Freitag, 2. November 2018, 16:39:24 CET schrieb Arnd Bergmann:
> Having two shash descriptors on the stack cause a very significant kernel
> stack usage that can cross the warning threshold:
> 
> fs/ubifs/replay.c: In function 'authenticate_sleb':
> fs/ubifs/replay.c:633:1: error: the frame size of 1144 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
> 
> Normally, gcc optimizes the out, but with CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_DEBUGGING,
> it does not. Splitting the two stack allocations into separate functions
> means that they will use the same memory again. In normal configurations
> (optimizing for size or performance), those should get inlined and we get
> the same behavior as before.

Thanks for addressing this, applied!

Thanks,
//richard