On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 8:51 PM, Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the quest to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this
> switches to using a pre-allocated scratch register space, set up with
> all other other allocations.
>
> [1] 
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qpxydaacu1rq...@mail.gmail.com
>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <[email protected]>
> Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
> Cc: Vinod Koul <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>

I looked too long at this one, in short:

- Your change looks correct to me
- It could be done better in many ways, all of which would
  involve cleaning up some of the existing code in the process
- Nobody uses this driver in practice, as the hardware platform
  was a dead end

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>

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