Arnd Bergmann 21feadd024 ipmi: ipmb: don't allocate i2c_client on stack
The i2c_client structure can be fairly large, which leads to
a warning about possible kernel stack overflow in some
configurations:

drivers/char/ipmi/ipmb_dev_int.c:115:16: error: stack frame size of 1032 bytes in function 'ipmb_write' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than=]

There is no real reason to even declare an i2c_client, as we can simply
call i2c_smbus_xfer() directly instead of the i2c_smbus_write_block_data()
wrapper.

Convert the ipmb_write() to use an open-coded i2c_smbus_write_block_data()
here, without changing the behavior.

It seems that there is another problem with this implementation;
when user space passes a length of more than I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX
bytes, all the rest is silently ignored. This should probably be
addressed in a separate patch, but I don't know what the intended
behavior is here.

Fixes: 51bd6f2915 ("Add support for IPMB driver")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Message-Id: <20190619125045.918700-1-arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Asmaa Mnebhi <Asmaa@mellanox.com>
[Broke up a line >80 characters on i2c_smbus_xfer().]
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
2019-06-19 09:03:55 -05:00
2019-06-10 14:47:10 -05:00
2019-05-16 15:51:55 -07:00
2019-05-19 15:47:09 -07:00

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