From: maxime.ripard@bootlin.com (Maxime Ripard)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] drm/sun4i: Remove VLA usage
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 17:44:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180704154437.dcjsghcsxikry2xn@flea> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180629184740.GA37415@beast>
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 11:47:40AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> In the quest to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this
> switches to using a kmalloc allocation and moves all the size calculations
> to the start to do an allocation. If an upper bounds on the mode timing
> calculations could be determined, a fixed stack size could be used instead.
>
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1RqZWA at mail.gmail.com
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Applied, thanks!
Maxime
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Maxime Ripard, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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2018-06-29 18:47 [PATCH] drm/sun4i: Remove VLA usage Kees Cook
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