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SubjectRe: [PATCH] pktgen: use dynamic allocation for debug print buffer
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Arnd:

Thanks for the fix.

On 03/13/2018 10:02 PM, Wang Jian wrote:
>>> + kfree(buf);
> free tb? buf is an array.
>

Wang:

Thanks for the report. I already sent a patch to fix this:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10281587/

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Gustavo

> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 8:25 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 21:58:39 +0100
>>
>>> After the removal of the VLA, we get a harmless warning about a large
>>> stack frame:
>>>
>>> net/core/pktgen.c: In function 'pktgen_if_write':
>>> net/core/pktgen.c:1710:1: error: the frame size of 1076 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
>>>
>>> The function was previously shown to be safe despite hitting
>>> the 1024 bye warning level. To get rid of the annoyging warning,
>>> while keeping it readable, this changes it to use strndup_user().
>>>
>>> Obviously this is not a fast path, so the kmalloc() overhead
>>> can be disregarded.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 35951393bbff ("pktgen: Remove VLA usage")
>>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>>
>> Applied, thanks.


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