tree 510005d33d6a005fc980a78134a116e55c11c23c
parent 62075e581802ea1842d5d3c490a7e46330bdb9e1
author Jeremy Compostella <jeremy.compostella@intel.com> 1462570768 +0100
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 1462597573 +0200

efibc: Fix excessive stack footprint warning

GCC complains about a newly added file for the EFI Bootloader Control:

  drivers/firmware/efi/efibc.c: In function 'efibc_set_variable':
  drivers/firmware/efi/efibc.c:53:1: error: the frame size of 2272 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]

The problem is the declaration of a local variable of type struct
efivar_entry, which is by itself larger than the warning limit of 1024
bytes.

Use dynamic memory allocation instead of stack memory for the entry
object.

This patch also fixes a potential buffer overflow.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Compostella <jeremy.compostella@intel.com>
[ Updated changelog to include GCC error ]
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462570771-13324-3-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>