netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] rds: avoid potential stack overflow

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Date:	Thu, 12 Mar 2015 00:28:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	arnd@...db.de
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, roland@...estorage.com,
	rds-devel@....oracle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	chien.yen@...cle.com, sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] rds: avoid potential stack overflow

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 22:46:59 +0100

> The rds_iw_update_cm_id function stores a large 'struct rds_sock' object
> on the stack in order to pass a pair of addresses. This happens to just
> fit withint the 1024 byte stack size warning limit on x86, but just
> exceed that limit on ARM, which gives us this warning:
> 
> net/rds/iw_rdma.c:200:1: warning: the frame size of 1056 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
> 
> As the use of this large variable is basically bogus, we can rearrange
> the code to not do that. Instead of passing an rds socket into
> rds_iw_get_device, we now just pass the two addresses that we have
> available in rds_iw_update_cm_id, and we change rds_iw_get_mr accordingly,
> to create two address structures on the stack there.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> ---
> v2: fix incorrect commit message

Applied, thanks Arnd.
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