[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: Simplify format_register_str() without stack usages

[Takashi Iwai]

Instead of allocating two string buffers on stack and copying them
back, manipulate directly the target string buffer.  This simplifies
the code well.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
---
 sound/soc/soc-core.c | 27 +++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-core.c b/sound/soc/soc-core.c
index 23732523f87c..ee86f84b7ccc 100644
--- a/sound/soc/soc-core.c
+++ b/sound/soc/soc-core.c
@@ -92,30 +92,21 @@ static int format_register_str(struct snd_soc_codec *codec,
 	int wordsize = min_bytes_needed(codec->driver->reg_cache_size) * 2;
 	int regsize = codec->driver->reg_word_size * 2;
 	int ret;
-	char tmpbuf[len + 1];
-	char regbuf[regsize + 1];
-
-	/* since tmpbuf is allocated on the stack, warn the callers if they
-	 * try to abuse this function */
-	WARN_ON(len > 63);
 
 	/* +2 for ': ' and + 1 for '\n' */
 	if (wordsize + regsize + 2 + 1 != len)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	ret = snd_soc_read(codec, reg);
-	if (ret < 0) {
-		memset(regbuf, 'X', regsize);
-		regbuf[regsize] = '\0';
-	} else {
-		snprintf(regbuf, regsize + 1, "%.*x", regsize, ret);
-	}
-
-	/* prepare the buffer */
-	snprintf(tmpbuf, len + 1, "%.*x: %s\n", wordsize, reg, regbuf);
-	/* copy it back to the caller without the '\0' */
-	memcpy(buf, tmpbuf, len);
+	sprintf(buf, "%.*x: ", wordsize, reg);
+	buf += wordsize + 2;
 
+	ret = snd_soc_read(codec, reg);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		memset(buf, 'X', regsize);
+	else
+		sprintf(buf, "%.*x", regsize, ret);
+	buf[regsize] = '\n';
+	/* no NUL-termination needed */
 	return 0;
 }
 
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