[PATCH 1/2] hw/nvme: Use #define to avoid variable length array

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>

In nvme_map_sgl() we create an array segment[] whose size is the
'const int SEG_CHUNK_SIZE'.  Since this is C, rather than C++, a
"const int foo" is not a true constant, it's merely a variable with a
constant value, and so semantically segment[] is a variable-length
array.  Switch SEG_CHUNK_SIZE to a #define so that we can make the
segment[] array truly fixed-size, in the sense that it doesn't
trigger the -Wvla warning.

The codebase has very few VLAs, and if we can get rid of them all we
can make the compiler error on new additions.  This is a defensive
measure against security bugs where an on-stack dynamic allocation
isn't correctly size-checked (e.g.  CVE-2021-3527).

Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
[PMM: rebased (function has moved file), expand commit message
 based on discussion from previous version of patch]
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
---
 hw/nvme/ctrl.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hw/nvme/ctrl.c b/hw/nvme/ctrl.c
index 539d2735531..d99a6f5c9a2 100644
--- a/hw/nvme/ctrl.c
+++ b/hw/nvme/ctrl.c
@@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ static uint16_t nvme_map_sgl(NvmeCtrl *n, NvmeSg *sg, NvmeSglDescriptor sgl,
      * descriptors and segment chain) than the command transfer size, so it is
      * not bounded by MDTS.
      */
-    const int SEG_CHUNK_SIZE = 256;
+#define SEG_CHUNK_SIZE 256
 
     NvmeSglDescriptor segment[SEG_CHUNK_SIZE], *sgld, *last_sgld;
     uint64_t nsgld;
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