Hi Linus, Please pull these rslib changes for v4.18-rc1. Thomas asked me to carry this series since I've been coordinating VLA removal, and he's got enough trees to worry about. :) This has been in -next for a while now.
Thanks! -Kees The following changes since commit 6d08b06e67cd117f6992c46611dfb4ce267cd71e: Linux 4.17-rc2 (2018-04-22 19:20:09 -0700) are available in the Git repository at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git tags/rslib-v4.18-rc1 for you to fetch changes up to 45888b40d2a6221d46bb69959e2600ddba71cc1f: rslib: Allocate decoder buffers to avoid VLAs (2018-04-24 19:50:10 -0700) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Refactors rslib and callers to provide a per-instance allocation area instead of performing VLAs on the stack. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Gleixner (10): rslib: Add GFP aware init function dm/verity_fec: Use GFP aware reed solomon init rslib: Cleanup whitespace damage rslib: Cleanup top level comments rslib: Add SPDX identifiers rslib: Remove GPL boilerplate rslib: Simplify error path rslib: Split rs control struct mtd: rawnand: diskonchip: Allocate rs control per instance rslib: Allocate decoder buffers to avoid VLAs drivers/md/dm-verity-fec.c | 2 +- drivers/mtd/nand/raw/cafe_nand.c | 7 +- drivers/mtd/nand/raw/diskonchip.c | 67 +++++------ include/linux/rslib.h | 74 +++++++----- lib/reed_solomon/decode_rs.c | 34 +++--- lib/reed_solomon/encode_rs.c | 15 +-- lib/reed_solomon/reed_solomon.c | 240 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 7 files changed, 243 insertions(+), 196 deletions(-) -- Kees Cook Pixel Security