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[PULL,03/18] hw/net: move allocation to the heap due to very large stack frame

Message ID 20201027141735.728821-4-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au
State Accepted
Commit 2d154d2694009f9294e34875059e3a650ee5110a
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Series ppc-for-5.2 queue 20201028 | expand

Commit Message

David Gibson Oct. 27, 2020, 2:17 p.m. UTC 
From: Elena Afanasova <eafanasova@gmail.com>

[dwg] The stack frame itself probably isn't that big a deal, but
avoiding alloca() is generally recommended these days.

Signed-off-by: Elena Afanasova <eafanasova@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <8f07132478469b35fb50a4706691e2b56b10a67b.camel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
---
 hw/net/spapr_llan.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/hw/net/spapr_llan.c b/hw/net/spapr_llan.c
index 2093f1bad0..581320a0e7 100644
--- a/hw/net/spapr_llan.c
+++ b/hw/net/spapr_llan.c
@@ -688,7 +688,8 @@  static target_ulong h_send_logical_lan(PowerPCCPU *cpu,
     SpaprVioDevice *sdev = spapr_vio_find_by_reg(spapr->vio_bus, reg);
     SpaprVioVlan *dev = VIO_SPAPR_VLAN_DEVICE(sdev);
     unsigned total_len;
-    uint8_t *lbuf, *p;
+    uint8_t *p;
+    g_autofree uint8_t *lbuf = NULL;
     int i, nbufs;
     int ret;
 
@@ -729,7 +730,7 @@  static target_ulong h_send_logical_lan(PowerPCCPU *cpu,
         return H_RESOURCE;
     }
 
-    lbuf = alloca(total_len);
+    lbuf = g_malloc(total_len);
     p = lbuf;
     for (i = 0; i < nbufs; i++) {
         ret = spapr_vio_dma_read(sdev, VLAN_BD_ADDR(bufs[i]),