Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: btusb: fix excessive stack usage

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Arnd,

> Enlarging the size of 'struct btmtk_hci_wmt_cmd' makes it no longer
> fit on the kernel stack, as seen from this compiler warning:
> 
> drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c:3365:12: error: stack frame size of 1036 bytes in function 'btusb_mtk_hci_wmt_sync' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than=]
> 
> Change the function to dynamically allocate the buffer instead.
> As there are other sleeping functions called from the same location,
> using GFP_KERNEL should be fine here, and the runtime overhead should
> not matter as this is rarely called.
> 
> Unfortunately, I could not figure out why the message size is
> increased in the previous patch. Using dynamic allocation means
> any size is possible now, but there is still a range check that
> limits the total size (including the five-byte header) to 255
> bytes, so whatever was intended there is now undone.
> 
> Fixes: 48c13301e6ba ("Bluetooth: btusb: Fine-tune mt7663 mechanism.")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c | 24 +++++++++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

patch has been applied to bluetooth-next tree.

Regards

Marcel