Hi Gustavo, On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:23:43AM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: > In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA. In this particular > case use macro ARRAY_SIZE so the length of array _result_ can be > computed at preprocessing time. > > The use of stack Variable Length Arrays needs to be avoided, as they > can be a vector for stack exhaustion, which can be both a runtime bug > or a security flaw. Also, in general, as code evolves it is easy to > lose track of how big a VLA can get. Thus, we can end up having runtime > failures that are hard to debug. > > Also, fixed as part of the directive to remove all VLAs from > the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621 > > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gust...@embeddedor.com> > ---
It is already applied as I had sent the patch few days ago. https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/10/164 I specifically CC'ed you and Kees to avoid the patch collisions. -- Thanks Himanshu Jha
