Re: [PATCH] xenbus: avoid stack overflow warning

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 7:12 AM Jürgen Groß <jgross@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 05.05.20 22:57, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 6:02 PM Jürgen Groß <jgross@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On 05.05.20 17:01, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >>> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 4:34 PM Jürgen Groß <jgross@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>> On 05.05.20 16:15, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I considered that as well, and don't really mind either way. I think it 
> >>> does
> >>> get a bit ugly whatever we do. If you prefer the union, I can respin the
> >>> patch that way.
> >>
> >> Hmm, thinking more about it I think the real clean solution would be to
> >> extend struct map_ring_valloc_hvm to cover the pv case, too, to add the
> >> map and unmap arrays (possibly as a union) to it and to allocate it
> >> dynamically instead of having it on the stack.
> >>
> >> Would you be fine doing this?
> >
> > This is a little more complex than I'd want to do without doing any testing
> > (and no, I don't want to do the testing either) ;-)
> >
> > It does sound like a better approach though.
>
> I take this as you are fine with me writing the patch and adding you as
> "Reported-by:"?

Yes, definitely. Thanks!

     Arnd