mac80211: avoid excessive stack usage in sta_info
authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Tue, 26 Jan 2016 22:05:31 +0000 (23:05 +0100)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sat, 30 Apr 2016 22:05:15 +0000 (00:05 +0200)
commiteefa363eb2e49f371f6fc2cd4f4def4de5943fc1
tree93299a37a8be6ac562a6dea81ec612b74272d401
parentdccef52958cc5d654a8e8be3e1578a2b435c538f
mac80211: avoid excessive stack usage in sta_info

commit 0ef049dc1167fe834d0ad5d63f89eddc5c70f6e4 upstream.

When CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING is set, the sta_info_insert_finish
function consumes more stack than normally, exceeding the
1024 byte limit on ARM:

net/mac80211/sta_info.c: In function 'sta_info_insert_finish':
net/mac80211/sta_info.c:561:1: error: the frame size of 1080 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]

It turns out that there are two functions that put a 'struct station_info'
on the stack: __sta_info_destroy_part2 and sta_info_insert_finish, and
this structure alone requires up to 792 bytes.

Hoping that both are called rarely enough, this replaces the
on-stack structure with a dynamic allocation, which unfortunately
requires some suboptimal error handling for out-of-memory.

The __sta_info_destroy_part2 function is actually affected by the
stack usage twice because it calls cfg80211_del_sta_sinfo(), which
has another instance of struct station_info on its stack.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Fixes: 98b6218388e3 ("mac80211/cfg80211: add station events")
Fixes: 6f7a8d26e266 ("mac80211: send statistics with delete station event")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - There's only one instance to fix
 - Adjust context,indentation
 - Use 'return' instead of 'goto out_err']
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
net/mac80211/sta_info.c