On Mon, 2016-12-05 at 06:47 -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> On 12/05/2016 05:59 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > 
> > +static ssize_t misc_read(struct file *file, char __user *user_buf,
> > > 
> > > +                  size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
> > > +{
> > > + struct ieee80211_local *local = file->private_data;
> > > + size_t bufsz = 1000;
> > > + char *buf = kzalloc(bufsz, GFP_KERNEL);
> > 
> > You need at most IEEE80211_MAX_QUEUES * 16 (==256) which I think
> > you
> > can put on the stack?
> 
> I actually run with 64 queues in my tree, 

Heh, well, in that case the 1000 is actually potentially too small for
you :) (it'll work because there never are many packets on the queues
though)

> and either way, I thought large-ish things on the stack were frowned
> upon for systems that want to run smaller stacks?

Yeah but the limit is more like 1KB :)

Maybe allocate, but actually do 16*NUM_QUEUES? The 1000 is just
arbitrarily magic in there.

johannes

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