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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] Remove accidental VLA usage
On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 09:02:36 -0600
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 07:30:44PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > This series adds SIMPLE_MAX() to be used in places where a stack array
> > is actually fixed, but the compiler still warns about VLA usage due to
> > confusion caused by the safety checks in the max() macro.
> >
> > I'm sending these via -mm since that's where I've introduced SIMPLE_MAX(),
> > and they should all have no operational differences.
>
> What if we instead simplify the max() macro's type checking so that GCC
> can more easily fold the array size constants? The below patch seems to
> work:

Nice. Have you tried to do a allmodconfig and build on various archs?

Of course pushing it to kernel.org will have the zero day bot do it for
you ;-)

-- Steve

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