On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 3:31 PM David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> rxkad sometimes triggers a warning about oversized stack frames when
> building with clang for a 32-bit architecture:
>
> net/rxrpc/rxkad.c:243:12: error: stack frame size of 1088 bytes in function 'rxkad_secure_packet' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than=]
> net/rxrpc/rxkad.c:501:12: error: stack frame size of 1088 bytes in function 'rxkad_verify_packet' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than=]
>
> The problem is the combination of SYNC_SKCIPHER_REQUEST_ON_STACK() in
> rxkad_verify_packet()/rxkad_secure_packet() with the relatively large
> scatterlist in rxkad_verify_packet_1()/rxkad_secure_packet_encrypt().
>
> The warning does not show up when using gcc, which does not inline the
> functions as aggressively, but the problem is still the same.
>
> Allocate the cipher buffers from the slab instead, caching the allocated
> packet crypto request memory used for DATA packet crypto in the rxrpc_call
> struct.
>
> Fixes: 17926a79320a ("[AF_RXRPC]: Provide secure RxRPC sockets for use by userspace and kernel both")
> Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
