13 May
2022
13 May
'22
7:45 a.m.
On 5/12/22 16:33, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
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+/*
- IOCTL entry point for the Ultravisor device.
- */
+static long uvio_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) +{
- void __user *argp = (void __user *)arg;
- struct uvio_ioctl_cb *uv_ioctl;
- long ret;
- ret = -ENOMEM;
- uv_ioctl = vzalloc(sizeof(*uv_ioctl));
struct uvio_ioctl_cb is rather small, couldn't you just allocate it on the stack?
IIRC it was on stack in some previous version. We then had a discussion earlier about this triggered by the inverse comment and decided to not use the stack.
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