linux-kernel - Re: KASAN+netlink, was: [PATCH] [net-next?] hns: avoid stack overflow with CONFIG

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Date:   Wed, 08 Feb 2017 13:24:25 +0100
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@...sung.com>,
        nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com, nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com,
        adobriyan@...il.com,
        linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: KASAN+netlink, was: [PATCH] [net-next?] hns: avoid stack
 overflow with CONFIG_KASAN

On Wed, 2017-02-08 at 13:03 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> - Moving nla_put_{u8,u16,u32} out of line is probably uncontroversial
> and
>   it helps enough with br_netlink.c, but nl820211 is worse and needs
> some
>   additional fiddling.

Why would that not be sufficient by itself for nl80211?

Btw, what's causing this to start with? Can't the compiler reuse the
stack places?

johannes