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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] Bluetooth: Remove VLA usage in aes_cmac
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On 03/21/2018 08:45 AM, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Gustavo,
>
>> In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA and replace it
>> with dynamic memory allocation instead.
>>
>> 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 <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
>> ---
>> Changes in v2:
>> - Fix memory leak in previous patch.
>>
>> net/bluetooth/smp.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
>> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> patch has been applied to bluetooth-next tree.
>
> Regards
>
> Marcel
>

Awesome.

Thanks, Marcel.
--
Gustavo

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