Subject: Re: [PATCH v4.4-rc8 6/7] isdn: eicon: diddfunc: Silence frame size warning

From: Tim Gardner <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 15:05:10 -0700

On 01/08/2016 01:04 PM, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> On 01/08/2016 03:32 PM, [email-masked] wrote:
> 
>> From: Tim Gardner <[email-masked]>
>>
>> drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/diddfunc.c: In function 'connect_didd':
>> drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/diddfunc.c:77:1: warning: the frame size
>> of 1152 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
>>
>> gcc version 5.3.1 20151219 (Ubuntu 5.3.1-4ubuntu1)
>>
>> Cc: Armin Schindler <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: Karsten Keil <[email-masked]>
>> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <[email-masked]>
>> ---
>>   drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/diddfunc.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
>>   1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/diddfunc.c
>> b/drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/diddfunc.c
>> index b0b23ed..a9feb4f 100644
>> --- a/drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/diddfunc.c
>> +++ b/drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/diddfunc.c
>> @@ -52,9 +52,13 @@ static int __init connect_didd(void)
>>       int x = 0;
>>       int dadapter = 0;
>>       IDI_SYNC_REQ req;
>> -    DESCRIPTOR DIDD_Table[MAX_DESCRIPTORS];
>> +    DESCRIPTOR *DIDD_Table;
>>
>> -    DIVA_DIDD_Read(DIDD_Table, sizeof(DIDD_Table));
>> +    DIDD_Table = kcalloc(MAX_DESCRIPTORS, sizeof(*DIDD_Table),
>> GFP_KERNEL);
> 
>   Previously the array didn't seem to be zeroed, perhaps it's better to
> use kmalloc_array()?
> 
> [...]
> 
> MHR, Sergei
> 

The last patch in the series (isdn: eicon: consolidate descriptor
allocation) consolidates the allocation code into one function. I used
kmalloc() there because I noticed that diva_didd_read_adapter_array()
does zero the buffer before using it.

Do you think that is sufficient ?

rtg
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Tim Gardner [email-masked]