Messages in this thread | | | From | Ben Skeggs <> | Date | Fri, 16 Mar 2018 12:05:53 +1000 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] drm/nouveau/secboot: remove VLA usage |
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On 14 March 2018 at 21:08, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:24:11AM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: >> In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA. In this particular >> case directly use macro NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE instead of local >> variable cmdline_size. Also, remove cmdline_size as it is not >> actually useful anymore. >> >> 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 <gustavo@embeddedor.com> >> --- >> Changes in v2: >> - Use sizeof(buf) instead of NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE. This change >> is based on the feedback provided by David Laight. Thanks David. >> >> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/ls_ucode_msgqueue.c | 7 +++---- >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > Reviewed-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> Thanks everyone. I've taken the patch in my tree.
Ben.
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