On Sep 12 15:15, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 at 08:09, Klaus Jensen <i...@irrelevant.dk> wrote: > > > > On Aug 11 18:47, Peter Maydell wrote: > > > The QEMU codebase has very few C variable length arrays, 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). > > > > > > We last had a go at this a few years ago, when Philippe wrote > > > patches for this: > > > https://patchew.org/QEMU/20210505211047.1496765-1-phi...@redhat.com/ > > > Some of the fixes made it into the tree, but some didn't (either > > > because of lack of review or because review found some changes > > > that needed to be made). I'm going through the remainder as a > > > non-urgent Friday afternoon task... > > > > > > This patchset deals with two VLAs in the NVME code. > > > > > > thanks > > > -- PMM > > > > > > Peter Maydell (1): > > > hw/nvme: Avoid dynamic stack allocation > > > > > > Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (1): > > > hw/nvme: Use #define to avoid variable length array > > > > > > hw/nvme/ctrl.c | 4 ++-- > > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > > > -- > > > 2.34.1 > > > > > > > Thanks Peter, > > > > Applied to nvme-next! > > > Hi Klaus -- did these patches get lost? They don't seem to > have appeared in master yet. > > thanks > -- PMM
Oh. I never sent the pull - I'll do that right away! Thanks for the reminder!
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