From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 12:14:11 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Driver core: fix show_uevent from taking up way too much stack
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.22-rc1~1038^2~4
X-Git-Url: http://ftp.safe.ca/?a=commitdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;h=c7308c81a8220ab68eebfadde37db881a2800064;p=safe%2Fjmp%2Flinux-2.6

Driver core: fix show_uevent from taking up way too much stack

Declaring an array of PAGE_SIZE does bad things for people running with
4k stacks...

Thanks to Tilman Schmidt for tracking this down.

Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 8aa090d..59d9816 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ static ssize_t show_uevent(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
 	struct kobject *top_kobj;
 	struct kset *kset;
 	char *envp[32];
-	char data[PAGE_SIZE];
+	char *data = NULL;
 	char *pos;
 	int i;
 	size_t count = 0;
@@ -276,6 +276,10 @@ static ssize_t show_uevent(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
 		if (!kset->uevent_ops->filter(kset, &dev->kobj))
 			goto out;
 
+	data = (char *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!data)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	/* let the kset specific function add its keys */
 	pos = data;
 	retval = kset->uevent_ops->uevent(kset, &dev->kobj,
@@ -290,6 +294,7 @@ static ssize_t show_uevent(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
 		count += sprintf(pos, "%s\n", envp[i]);
 	}
 out:
+	free_page((unsigned long)data);
 	return count;
 }