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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] cxgb3: remove VLA usage
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 15:56:14 -0500 (EST)
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From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 12:03:33 -0600

> Remove VLA usage and change the 'len' argument to a u8 and use a 256
> byte buffer on the stack. Notice that these lengths are limited by the
> encoding field in the VPD structure, which is a u8 [1].
> 
> [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=152044354814024&w=2
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
>  - Update the code as suggested by David Miller.
>  - Update changelog based on David's comments.
>  - Update subject.

Applied to net-next, thanks.