From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> In nvme_map_sgl() we create an array segment[] whose size is the 'const int SEG_CHUNK_SIZE'. Since this is C, rather than C++, a "const int foo" is not a true constant, it's merely a variable with a constant value, and so semantically segment[] is a variable-length array. Switch SEG_CHUNK_SIZE to a #define so that we can make the segment[] array truly fixed-size, in the sense that it doesn't trigger the -Wvla warning.
The codebase has very few VLAs, and if we can get rid of them all we can make the compiler error on new additions. This is a defensive measure against security bugs where an on-stack dynamic allocation isn't correctly size-checked (e.g. CVE-2021-3527). [PMM: rebased (function has moved file), expand commit message based on discussion from previous version of patch] Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Klaus Jensen <k.jen...@samsung.com> --- hw/nvme/ctrl.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hw/nvme/ctrl.c b/hw/nvme/ctrl.c index 539d27355313..d99a6f5c9a2e 100644 --- a/hw/nvme/ctrl.c +++ b/hw/nvme/ctrl.c @@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ static uint16_t nvme_map_sgl(NvmeCtrl *n, NvmeSg *sg, NvmeSglDescriptor sgl, * descriptors and segment chain) than the command transfer size, so it is * not bounded by MDTS. */ - const int SEG_CHUNK_SIZE = 256; +#define SEG_CHUNK_SIZE 256 NvmeSglDescriptor segment[SEG_CHUNK_SIZE], *sgld, *last_sgld; uint64_t nsgld; -- 2.42.0