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SubjectRe: [PATCH] flow_dissector: work around stack frame size warning
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 22:13:58 +0200

> 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@arndb.de>

Applied, thanks.

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