would a kalloc/free be suffizient ? some could do it like strdup().
re,
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Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>> --- a/init/main.c
>> +++ b/init/main.c
>> @@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ static int __init do_early_param(char *param, char
>> *val)
>> void __init parse_early_param(void)
>> {
>> static __initdata int done = 0;
>> - static __initdata char tmp_cmdline[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE];
>> + char tmp_cmdline[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE];
>
> As I've said in an answer to an e-mail from you on the kernelnewbies
> mailing list, this change is going to allocate 2k on the stack, which is
> quite big compared to the overall stack size. If you use 8k stacks, it
> may still work, but with 4k stacks, it eats half of the stack, leaving
> only 2k for the rest of the code to execute, which may not be enough. I
> think that why this buffer is static.
>
> Sincerly,
>
> Thomas
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