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Date:	Mon, 9 Aug 2010 09:46:32 -0700
From:	Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@...gic.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
CC:	Amit Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com>,
	Linux Driver <Linux-Driver@...gic.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Sucheta Chakraborty <sucheta.chakraborty@...gic.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] qlcnic: using too much stack


On Aug 9, 2010, at 4:07 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> qlcnic_pci_info structs are 128 bytes so an array of 8 uses 1024 bytes.
> That's a lot if you run with 4K stacks.  I allocated them with kcalloc()
> instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/qlcnic/qlcnic_main.c b/drivers/net/qlcnic/qlcnic_main.c
> index 7f27e2a..da84229 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/qlcnic/qlcnic_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/qlcnic/qlcnic_main.c
> @@ -473,14 +473,20 @@ qlcnic_cleanup_pci_map(struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter)
> static int
> qlcnic_init_pci_info(struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter)
> {
> -	struct qlcnic_pci_info pci_info[QLCNIC_MAX_PCI_FUNC];
> +	struct qlcnic_pci_info *pci_info;
> 	int i, ret = 0, err;
> 	u8 pfn;
> 
> +	pci_info = kcalloc(QLCNIC_MAX_PCI_FUNC, sizeof(*pci_info), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!pci_info)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +
> 	adapter->npars = kzalloc(sizeof(struct qlcnic_npar_info) *
> 				QLCNIC_MAX_PCI_FUNC, GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!adapter->npars)
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> +	if (!adapter->npars) {
> +		err = -ENOMEM;
> +		goto err_pci_info;
> +	}
> 
> 	adapter->eswitch = kzalloc(sizeof(struct qlcnic_eswitch) *
> 				QLCNIC_NIU_MAX_XG_PORTS, GFP_KERNEL);
> @@ -508,6 +514,7 @@ qlcnic_init_pci_info(struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter)
> 	for (i = 0; i < QLCNIC_NIU_MAX_XG_PORTS; i++)
> 		adapter->eswitch[i].flags |= QLCNIC_SWITCH_ENABLE;
> 
> +	kfree(pci_info);
> 	return 0;
> 
> err_eswitch:
> @@ -516,6 +523,8 @@ err_eswitch:
> err_npars:
> 	kfree(adapter->npars);
> 	adapter->eswitch = NULL;
> +err_pci_info:
> +	kfree(pci_info);
> 
> 	return ret;
> }
> @@ -3362,15 +3371,21 @@ qlcnic_sysfs_read_pci_config(struct file *file, struct kobject *kobj,
> 	struct device *dev = container_of(kobj, struct device, kobj);
> 	struct qlcnic_adapter *adapter = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
> 	struct qlcnic_pci_func_cfg pci_cfg[QLCNIC_MAX_PCI_FUNC];
> -	struct qlcnic_pci_info	pci_info[QLCNIC_MAX_PCI_FUNC];
> +	struct qlcnic_pci_info *pci_info;
> 	int i, ret;
> 
> 	if (size != sizeof(pci_cfg))
> 		return QL_STATUS_INVALID_PARAM;
> 
> +	pci_info = kcalloc(QLCNIC_MAX_PCI_FUNC, sizeof(*pci_info), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!pci_info)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +
> 	ret = qlcnic_get_pci_info(adapter, pci_info);
> -	if (ret)
> +	if (ret) {
> +		kfree(pci_info);
> 		return ret;
> +	}
> 
> 	for (i = 0; i < QLCNIC_MAX_PCI_FUNC ; i++) {
> 		pci_cfg[i].pci_func = pci_info[i].id;
> @@ -3381,8 +3396,8 @@ qlcnic_sysfs_read_pci_config(struct file *file, struct kobject *kobj,
> 		memcpy(&pci_cfg[i].def_mac_addr, &pci_info[i].mac, ETH_ALEN);
> 	}
> 	memcpy(buf, &pci_cfg, size);
> +	kfree(pci_info);
> 	return size;
> -
> }
> static struct bin_attribute bin_attr_npar_config = {
> 	.attr = {.name = "npar_config", .mode = (S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR)},

It looks fine except that I'd use kzalloc instead of kcalloc above.

thanks,
-Anirban--
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