On 5/12/22 16:33, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
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+/*
+ * IOCTL entry point for the Ultravisor device.
+ */
+static long uvio_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
+{
+ void __user *argp = (void __user *)arg;
+ struct uvio_ioctl_cb *uv_ioctl;
+ long ret;
+
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ uv_ioctl = vzalloc(sizeof(*uv_ioctl));
struct uvio_ioctl_cb is rather small, couldn't you just allocate it on
the stack?
IIRC it was on stack in some previous version. We then had a discussion
earlier about this triggered by the inverse comment and decided to not
use the stack.
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