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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2006-10-04 02:15:47 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-04 07:55:15 -0700
commit3cc03b164cf01c6f36e64720b58610d292fb26f7 (patch)
treeb558e11a087945ad5b9a1a25483aa2acc8d93fbb /net/sunrpc
parent4452435948424e5322c2a2fefbdc2cf3732cc45d (diff)
downloadlinux-3cc03b164cf01c6f36e64720b58610d292fb26f7.tar.gz
[PATCH] knfsd: Avoid excess stack usage in svc_tcp_recvfrom
..  by allocating the array of 'kvec' in 'struct svc_rqst'.

As we plan to increase RPCSVC_MAXPAGES from 8 upto 256, we can no longer
allocate an array of this size on the stack.  So we allocate it in 'struct
svc_rqst'.

However svc_rqst contains (indirectly) an array of the same type and size
(actually several, but they are in a union).  So rather than waste space, we
move those arrays out of the separately allocated union and into svc_rqst to
share with the kvec moved out of svc_tcp_recvfrom (various arrays are used at
different times, so there is no conflict).

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/sunrpc')
-rw-r--r--net/sunrpc/svcsock.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c b/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
index 25096d53667a..1d512337ccd9 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
@@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ svc_tcp_recvfrom(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 	struct svc_sock	*svsk = rqstp->rq_sock;
 	struct svc_serv	*serv = svsk->sk_server;
 	int		len;
-	struct kvec vec[RPCSVC_MAXPAGES];
+	struct kvec *vec;
 	int pnum, vlen;
 
 	dprintk("svc: tcp_recv %p data %d conn %d close %d\n",
@@ -1053,6 +1053,7 @@ svc_tcp_recvfrom(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 	len = svsk->sk_reclen;
 	set_bit(SK_DATA, &svsk->sk_flags);
 
+	vec = rqstp->rq_vec;
 	vec[0] = rqstp->rq_arg.head[0];
 	vlen = PAGE_SIZE;
 	pnum = 1;