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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: nfnetlink_cthelper: Remove VLA usage
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:36:55 +0100
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Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
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        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 07:21:38PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA and replace it
> with dynamic memory allocation.
> 
> From a security viewpoint, the use of Variable Length Arrays can be
> a vector for stack overflow attacks. Also, in general, as the code
> evolves it is easy to lose track of how big a VLA can get. Thus, we
> can end up having segfaults 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

also applied, thanks.