From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@gmx.de>,
Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>
Cc: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Subject: [PATCH] iio: potentiometer: ds1803: remove VLA usage
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 10:23:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180313152343.GA31789@embeddedgus> (raw)
In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA. In this particular
case use macro ARRAY_SIZE so the length of array _result_ can be
computed at preprocessing time.
The use of stack Variable Length Arrays needs to be avoided, as they
can be a vector for stack exhaustion, which can be both a runtime bug
or a security flaw. Also, in general, as code evolves it is easy to
lose track of how big a VLA can get. Thus, we can end up having runtime
failures that are hard to debug.
Also, fixed as part of the directive to remove all VLAs from
the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
---
drivers/iio/potentiometer/ds1803.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/iio/potentiometer/ds1803.c b/drivers/iio/potentiometer/ds1803.c
index 9b0ff4a..6bf12c9 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/potentiometer/ds1803.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/potentiometer/ds1803.c
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ static int ds1803_read_raw(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
struct ds1803_data *data = iio_priv(indio_dev);
int pot = chan->channel;
int ret;
- u8 result[indio_dev->num_channels];
+ u8 result[ARRAY_SIZE(ds1803_channels)];
switch (mask) {
case IIO_CHAN_INFO_RAW:
--
2.7.4
next reply other threads:[~2018-03-13 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-13 15:23 Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
2018-03-13 16:24 ` [PATCH] iio: potentiometer: ds1803: remove VLA usage Himanshu Jha
2018-03-13 16:31 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2018-03-13 16:59 ` Himanshu Jha
2018-03-13 17:05 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2018-03-13 17:07 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-03-08 18:45 [PATCH] iio: potentiometer: ds1803: Remove " Himanshu Jha
2018-03-08 19:39 ` Kees Cook
2018-03-09 11:05 ` Himanshu Jha
2018-03-10 15:04 ` Jonathan Cameron
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