[U-Boot] [PATCHv2] fs/fat: Reduce stack usage

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Fri Sep 22 13:02:09 UTC 2017


We have limited stack in SPL builds.  Drop itrblock and move to
malloc/free of itr to move this off of the stack.  As part of this fix a
double-free issue in fat_size().

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
---
Rework to use malloc/free as moving this to a global overflows some SH
targets.

 fs/fat/fat.c | 14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/fat/fat.c b/fs/fat/fat.c
index f0284398b41d..36a309c73c27 100644
--- a/fs/fat/fat.c
+++ b/fs/fat/fat.c
@@ -1034,24 +1034,27 @@ int file_fat_detectfs(void)
 int fat_exists(const char *filename)
 {
 	fsdata fsdata;
-	fat_itr itrblock, *itr = &itrblock;
+	fat_itr *itr;
 	int ret;
 
+	itr = malloc(sizeof(fat_itr));
 	ret = fat_itr_root(itr, &fsdata);
 	if (ret)
 		return 0;
 
 	ret = fat_itr_resolve(itr, filename, TYPE_ANY);
 	free(fsdata.fatbuf);
+	free(itr);
 	return ret == 0;
 }
 
 int fat_size(const char *filename, loff_t *size)
 {
 	fsdata fsdata;
-	fat_itr itrblock, *itr = &itrblock;
+	fat_itr *itr;
 	int ret;
 
+	itr = malloc(sizeof(fat_itr));
 	ret = fat_itr_root(itr, &fsdata);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
@@ -1072,8 +1075,9 @@ int fat_size(const char *filename, loff_t *size)
 	}
 
 	*size = FAT2CPU32(itr->dent->size);
-out:
 	free(fsdata.fatbuf);
+out:
+	free(itr);
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -1081,9 +1085,10 @@ int file_fat_read_at(const char *filename, loff_t pos, void *buffer,
 		     loff_t maxsize, loff_t *actread)
 {
 	fsdata fsdata;
-	fat_itr itrblock, *itr = &itrblock;
+	fat_itr *itr;
 	int ret;
 
+	itr = malloc(sizeof(fat_itr));
 	ret = fat_itr_root(itr, &fsdata);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
@@ -1097,6 +1102,7 @@ int file_fat_read_at(const char *filename, loff_t pos, void *buffer,
 
 out:
 	free(fsdata.fatbuf);
+	free(itr);
 	return ret;
 }
 
-- 
1.9.1



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