On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 16:36 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:38:03PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > Hi Rafael, > > > > Hi, > > > > > Today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) produced these warnings: > > > > > > drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dib7000p.c: In function ‘dib7000p_i2c_enumeration’: > > > drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dib7000p.c:1315: warning: the frame size of 2256 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes > > > drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dib3000mc.c: In function ‘dib3000mc_i2c_enumeration’: > > > drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dib3000mc.c:853: warning: the frame size of 2160 bytes is larger than 2048 bytes > > > > > > Introduced by commit 99307958cc9c1b0b2e0dad4bbefdafaf9ac5a681 ("PM: > > > Introduce core framework for run-time PM of I/O devices (rev. 17)"). > > > > Well. > > > > This commit increases the size of struct device quite a bit and both of the > > drivers above create a "state" object on the stack that contains struct device > > among other things. > > Ick. struct device should _never_ be on the stack, why would this code > want to do such a thing? It appears that the state object is a dummy being used to detect and twiddle some identical chips on the i2c bus. The functions called only use the "i2c_adapter" and "cfg" member of the dummy state object, but those functions want that state object as an input argument. <obvious> The simplest fix is dynamic allocation of the dummy state object with kmalloc() and then to free it before exiting the function. </obvious> Regards, Andy > thanks, > > greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html