Hi Thomas, Thanks for your patch! On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 5:00 PM Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Assume that the driver does not own the option string or its substrings > and hence duplicate the option string for the video mode. The driver only > parses the option string once as part of module initialization, so use > a static buffer to store the duplicated mode option. Linux automatically > frees the memory upon releasing the module. Are you sure about that? All of this code is inside "#ifndef MODULE". In the aty128fb case, the function is not marked __init. Enabling these 3 drivers adds 3x256 bytes of static buffer, more if you enable more fbdev drivers. > Done in preparation of switching the driver to struct option_iter and > constifying the option string. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> > --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/aty128fb.c > +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/aty/aty128fb.c > @@ -1723,7 +1723,17 @@ static int aty128fb_setup(char *options) > continue; > } > #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_PMAC */ > - mode_option = this_opt; > + { > + static char mode_option_buf[256]; > + int ret; > + > + ret = snprintf(mode_option_buf, sizeof(mode_option_buf), "%s", this_opt); > + if (WARN(ret < 0, "aty128: ignoring invalid option, ret=%d\n", ret)) > + continue; > + if (WARN(ret >= sizeof(mode_option_buf), "aty128fb: option too long\n")) > + continue; > + mode_option = mode_option_buf; > + } > } > return 0; > } eturn 0; > } Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds