linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] flow_dissector: work around stack frame size warning

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Fri, 29 May 2020 21:49:42 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Guillaume Nault <gnault@...hat.com>,
        Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...lanox.com>,
        Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] flow_dissector: work around stack frame size warning

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 1:14 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>
> The fl_flow_key structure is around 500 bytes, so having two of them
> on the stack in one function now exceeds the warning limit after an
> otherwise correct change:
>
> net/sched/cls_flower.c:298:12: error: stack frame size of 1056 bytes in function 'fl_classify' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than=]
>
> I suspect the fl_classify function could be reworked to only have one
> of them on the stack and modify it in place, but I could not work out
> how to do that.
>
> As a somewhat hacky workaround, move one of them into an out-of-line
> function to reduce its scope. This does not necessarily reduce the stack
> usage of the outer function, but at least the second copy is removed
> from the stack during most of it and does not add up to whatever is
> called from there.
>
> I now see 552 bytes of stack usage for fl_classify(), plus 528 bytes
> for fl_mask_lookup().
>
> Fixes: 58cff782cc55 ("flow_dissector: Parse multiple MPLS Label Stack Entries")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

I think this is probably the quickest way to amend this warning,
so:

Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>

Thanks.