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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

             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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