The patch titled udf: reduce stack usage of udf_load_pvoldesc has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is udf-reduce-stack-usage-of-udf_load_pvoldesc.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: udf: reduce stack usage of udf_load_pvoldesc From: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@xxxxxxxxx> Allocate strings with kmalloc. Checkstack output: Before: udf_process_sequence: 712 After: udf_process_sequence: 200 Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/udf/super.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/udf/super.c~udf-reduce-stack-usage-of-udf_load_pvoldesc fs/udf/super.c --- a/fs/udf/super.c~udf-reduce-stack-usage-of-udf_load_pvoldesc +++ a/fs/udf/super.c @@ -902,14 +902,23 @@ static int udf_find_fileset(struct super static int udf_load_pvoldesc(struct super_block *sb, sector_t block) { struct primaryVolDesc *pvoldesc; - struct ustr instr; - struct ustr outstr; + struct ustr *instr, *outstr; struct buffer_head *bh; uint16_t ident; + int ret = 1; + + instr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ustr), GFP_NOFS); + if (!instr) + return 1; + + outstr = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ustr), GFP_NOFS); + if (!outstr) + goto out1; bh = udf_read_tagged(sb, block, block, &ident); if (!bh) - return 1; + goto out2; + BUG_ON(ident != TAG_IDENT_PVD); pvoldesc = (struct primaryVolDesc *)bh->b_data; @@ -925,20 +934,25 @@ static int udf_load_pvoldesc(struct supe #endif } - if (!udf_build_ustr(&instr, pvoldesc->volIdent, 32)) - if (udf_CS0toUTF8(&outstr, &instr)) { - strncpy(UDF_SB(sb)->s_volume_ident, outstr.u_name, - outstr.u_len > 31 ? 31 : outstr.u_len); + if (!udf_build_ustr(instr, pvoldesc->volIdent, 32)) + if (udf_CS0toUTF8(outstr, instr)) { + strncpy(UDF_SB(sb)->s_volume_ident, outstr->u_name, + outstr->u_len > 31 ? 31 : outstr->u_len); udf_debug("volIdent[] = '%s'\n", UDF_SB(sb)->s_volume_ident); } - if (!udf_build_ustr(&instr, pvoldesc->volSetIdent, 128)) - if (udf_CS0toUTF8(&outstr, &instr)) - udf_debug("volSetIdent[] = '%s'\n", outstr.u_name); + if (!udf_build_ustr(instr, pvoldesc->volSetIdent, 128)) + if (udf_CS0toUTF8(outstr, instr)) + udf_debug("volSetIdent[] = '%s'\n", outstr->u_name); brelse(bh); - return 0; + ret = 0; +out2: + kfree(outstr); +out1: + kfree(instr); + return ret; } static int udf_load_metadata_files(struct super_block *sb, int partition) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from marcin.slusarz@xxxxxxxxx are udf-reduce-stack-usage-of-udf_load_pvoldesc.patch udf-reduce-stack-usage-of-udf_get_filename.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html