Re: [PATCH] tuners: tda8290: reduce stack usage with kasan

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Dec 11 2017 - 14:34:38 EST


On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 13:06 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> With CONFIG_KASAN enabled, we get a relatively large stack frame in one function
>
> drivers/media/tuners/tda8290.c: In function 'tda8290_set_params':
> drivers/media/tuners/tda8290.c:310:1: warning: the frame size of 1520 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
>
> With CONFIG_KASAN_EXTRA this goes up to
>
> drivers/media/tuners/tda8290.c: In function 'tda8290_set_params':
> drivers/media/tuners/tda8290.c:310:1: error: the frame size of 3200 bytes is larger than 3072 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
>
> We can significantly reduce this by marking local arrays as 'static const', and
> this should result in better compiled code for everyone.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/media/tuners/tda8290.c b/drivers/media/tuners/tda8290.c
[]
> @@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ static int tda8290_i2c_bridge(struct dvb_frontend *fe, int close)
> {
> struct tda8290_priv *priv = fe->analog_demod_priv;
>
> - unsigned char enable[2] = { 0x21, 0xC0 };
> - unsigned char disable[2] = { 0x21, 0x00 };
> + static unsigned char enable[2] = { 0x21, 0xC0 };
> + static unsigned char disable[2] = { 0x21, 0x00 };

Doesn't match commit message.

static const or just static?

> @@ -84,9 +84,9 @@ static int tda8295_i2c_bridge(struct dvb_frontend *fe, int close)
> {
> struct tda8290_priv *priv = fe->analog_demod_priv;
>
> - unsigned char enable[2] = { 0x45, 0xc1 };
> - unsigned char disable[2] = { 0x46, 0x00 };
> - unsigned char buf[3] = { 0x45, 0x01, 0x00 };
> + static unsigned char enable[2] = { 0x45, 0xc1 };
> + static unsigned char disable[2] = { 0x46, 0x00 };

etc.