Re: [PATCH] ocfs2: reduce ioctl stack usage

[Christian Brauner]

On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 05:37:06PM +0800, Joseph Qi wrote:
> Andrew picked ocfs2 patches into -mm tree before.

Yup and that's fine obviously, but this belongs to fs/ and we're aiming
to take fs/ stuff through the dedicated fs trees going forward.

Thanks!
Christian

> 
> Thanks,
> Joseph
> 
> On 4/18/23 5:17 PM, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 22:56:24 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >> On 32-bit architectures with KASAN_STACK enabled, the total stack usage
> >> of the ocfs2_ioctl function grows beyond the warning limit:
> >>
> >> fs/ocfs2/ioctl.c: In function 'ocfs2_ioctl':
> >> fs/ocfs2/ioctl.c:934:1: error: the frame size of 1448 bytes is larger than 1400 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
> >>
> >> Move each of the variables into a basic block, and mark ocfs2_info_handle()
> >> as noinline_for_stack, in order to have the variable share stack slots.
> >>
> >> [...]
> > 
> > Going by git log, ocfs2 patches don't go through a separate tree.
> > So unless there are objections I'm taking this through fs.misc,
> > 
> > tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/idmapping.git
> > branch: fs.misc
> > [1/1] ocfs2: reduce ioctl stack usage
> >       commit: 85ef56bc2d65215f43ceb7377ca14a779468928d
> > 
> > Christian