Re: [PATCH] crypto: sun4i-ss - reduce stack usage

[Herbert Xu]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 03:25:17PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> After the latest addition, the stack usage of sun4i_ss_cipher_poll
> grew beyond the warning limit when KASAN is enabled:
> 
> drivers/crypto/sunxi-ss/sun4i-ss-cipher.c:118:12: error: stack frame size of 1152 bytes in function 'sun4i_ss_cipher_poll' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than=]
> static int sun4i_ss_cipher_poll(struct skcipher_request *areq)
> 
> Reduce it in three ways:
> 
> - split out the new code into a separate function so its stack
>   usage can overlap that of the sun4i_ss_opti_poll() code path
> - mark both special cases as noinline_for_stack, which should
>   ideally result in a tail call that frees the rest of the
>   stack
> - move the buf and obuf variables into the code blocks in
>   which they are used.
> 
> The three separate functions now use 144, 640 and 304 bytes of kernel
> stack, respectively.
> 
> Fixes: 0ae1f46c55f8 ("crypto: sun4i-ss - fallback when length is not multiple of blocksize")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/crypto/sunxi-ss/sun4i-ss-cipher.c | 47 +++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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