The following commit has been merged into the core/rcu branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     2e90de76f226f11fe26c871aa321be28152f565a
Gitweb:        
https://git.kernel.org/tip/2e90de76f226f11fe26c871aa321be28152f565a
Author:        Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
AuthorDate:    Mon, 25 May 2020 17:45:03 -07:00
Committer:     Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
CommitterDate: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 12:00:44 -07:00

refperf: Dynamically allocate thread-summary output buffer

Currently, the buffer used to accumulate the thread-summary output is
fixed size, which will cause problems if someone decides to run on a large
number of PCUs.  This commit therefore dynamically allocates this buffer.

[ paulmck: Fix memory allocation as suggested by KASAN. ]
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
---
 kernel/rcu/refperf.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/refperf.c b/kernel/rcu/refperf.c
index 75b9cce..fc940e3 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/refperf.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/refperf.c
@@ -301,9 +301,12 @@ u64 process_durations(int n)
        int i;
        struct reader_task *rt;
        char buf1[64];
-       char buf[512];
+       char *buf;
        u64 sum = 0;
 
+       buf = kmalloc(128 + nreaders * 32, GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!buf)
+               return 0;
        buf[0] = 0;
        sprintf(buf, "Experiment #%d (Format: <THREAD-NUM>:<Total loop time in 
ns>)",
                exp_idx);
@@ -322,6 +325,7 @@ u64 process_durations(int n)
 
        PERFOUT("%s\n", buf);
 
+       kfree(buf);
        return sum;
 }
 

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