On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Inlining functions with local variables can lead to excessive stack usage
>> with KASAN after a previous patch that modifies the outsb/insb helpers
>> on x86.
>>
>> drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c: In function 'wl3501_rx_interrupt':
>> drivers/net/wireless/wl3501_cs.c:1103:1: error: the frame size of 2232 bytes is larger than 1536 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
>>
>> Marking the two callers of insb/outb 'noinline' prevents the compiler
>> from adding up the stack usage for each of the local variables passed
>> into those, reducing the maximum stack frame size to 800 bytes with
>> KASAN again.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Arnd, based on the discussion I'm dropping. Please let me know if I
> should take this still.
Thanks, that's good. The problem has become unreproducible and
I assume it's gone for good with the new x86 fix. In the unlikely
case some form of the problem comes back in another randconfig,
I'll post a new patch.
Arnd
