Re: [PATCH] cxgb3: remove VLA

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Mar 07 2018 - 12:25:51 EST


From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 23:39:34 -0600

> In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA and replace it
> with dynamic memory allocation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

All of these lengths are limited by the encoding of the field in the
VPD, which is a u8, and thus 255 bytes.

Please just change the 'len' argument to these functions to a u8 and
use a 256 byte buffer on the stack.

Thanks.