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From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Philippe Ombredanne" <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RAID/s390: Remove VLA usage
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 08:48:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180704084802.6ba4dc30@mschwideX1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180703195221.GA11066@beast>

On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 12:52:21 -0700
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> In the quest to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this moves
> the "$#" replacement from being an argument to being inside the function,
> which avoids generating VLAs.
> 
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1RqZWA@mail.gmail.com
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> ---
>  lib/raid6/s390vx.uc | 34 ++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Added to s390:features for the next merge window. Thanks.

-- 
blue skies,
   Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.


       reply	other threads:[~2018-07-04  6:48 UTC|newest]

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     [not found] <20180703195221.GA11066@beast>
2018-07-04  6:48 ` Martin Schwidefsky [this message]
2018-07-03 19:54 [PATCH] RAID/s390: Remove VLA usage Kees Cook

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