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From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 00:21:37 -0700
Subject: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] syscalls: Verify address
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On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 10:30:44PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On stack variable length arrays get implemented by the compiler doing
> alloca(), and we sadly have a few of those around.

I've just got rid of one of those and I wish they would appear
entirely as they are horrible in so many different ways.  Sparse
warns about them, btw.