netdev - Re: [PATCH] sfc: lower stack usage in efx_ethtool_self

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Date:	Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:09:21 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sfc: lower stack usage in efx_ethtool_self_test

On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 14:48 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> drivers/net/sfc/ethtool.c: In function ‘efx_ethtool_self_test’:
> drivers/net/sfc/ethtool.c:613: warning: the frame size of 1200 bytes
> is larger than 1024 bytes

This also fixes a whopping information leak in case the device is in a
broken state.

> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

Ben.

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