Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:53:39 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net/ibm/emac: Remove VLA usage | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:23:56 -0700
> In the quest to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this > removes the VLA used for the emac xaht registers size. Since the size > of registers can only ever be 4 or 8, as detected in emac_init_config(), > the max can be hardcoded and a runtime test added for robustness. > > [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1RqZWA@mail.gmail.com > > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> > Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@gmail.com> > Cc: Ivan Mikhaylov <ivan@de.ibm.com> > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org > Co-developed-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Applied to net-next, thanks.
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