From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"Harsh Prateek Bora" <harshpb@linux.ibm.com>,
"Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@redhat.com>,
"Nicholas Piggin" <npiggin@gmail.com>,
"Chinmay Rath" <rathc@linux.ibm.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Glenn Miles" <milesg@linux.ibm.com>,
"Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>,
"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/3] docs/devel/style: Mention alloca() family API is forbidden
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 15:26:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250901132626.28639-4-philmd@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250901132626.28639-1-philmd@linaro.org>
Suggested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
---
docs/devel/style.rst | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/devel/style.rst b/docs/devel/style.rst
index d025933808e..941fe14bfd4 100644
--- a/docs/devel/style.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/style.rst
@@ -446,8 +446,8 @@ Low level memory management
===========================
Use of the ``malloc/free/realloc/calloc/valloc/memalign/posix_memalign``
-APIs is not allowed in the QEMU codebase. Instead of these routines,
-use the GLib memory allocation routines
+or ``alloca/g_alloca/g_newa/g_newa0`` APIs is not allowed in the QEMU codebase.
+Instead of these routines, use the GLib memory allocation routines
``g_malloc/g_malloc0/g_new/g_new0/g_realloc/g_free``
or QEMU's ``qemu_memalign/qemu_blockalign/qemu_vfree`` APIs.
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-01 13:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-01 13:26 [PATCH v2 0/3] system: Forbid alloca() Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-09-01 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] target/ppc/kvm: Avoid using alloca() Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-09-01 13:30 ` Peter Maydell
2025-09-01 14:07 ` Manos Pitsidianakis
2025-09-02 6:41 ` Harsh Prateek Bora
2025-09-02 14:05 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-09-01 13:26 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] buildsys: Prohibit alloca() use on system code Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-09-01 13:37 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-09-01 13:26 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé [this message]
2025-09-01 14:05 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] docs/devel/style: Mention alloca() family API is forbidden Manos Pitsidianakis
2025-09-01 14:41 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-09-02 14:04 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2025-09-02 10:17 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] system: Forbid alloca() Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
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