Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:10:53 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] exofs: Avoid VLA in structures |
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 13:39:04 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> On the quest to remove all VLAs from the kernel[1] this adjusts several > cases where allocation is made after an array of structures that points > back into the allocation. The allocations are changed to perform explicit > calculations instead of using a Variable Length Array in a structure. > Additionally, this lets Clang compile this code now, since Clang does not > support VLAIS[2]. > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621 > [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/23/500 > > ... > > I not sure the best way to test this. Kconfig implies I need special hardware?
Yeah, I was wondering about that. It's a tricky-looking patch.
Boaz, are you able to give it a spin?
Thanks.
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