Re: [PATCH v2] power: supply: da9150-fg: remove VLA usage

From: Sebastian Reichel
Date: Mon Mar 12 2018 - 09:41:12 EST


Hi,

On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 12:27:08PM -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA usage and replace it
> with fixed-length arrays.
>
> DA9150_QIF_LONG_SIZE (4 bytes) is the biggest size of an attribute which can
> be accessed [1].
>
> Fixed as part of the directive to remove all VLAs from
> the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
>
> [1] https://marc.info/?l=kernel-hardening&m=152059600524753&w=2
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Thanks, queued to power-supply's for-next branch.

-- Sebastian

> Changes in v2:
> - Use DA9150_QIF_LONG_SIZE instead of DA9150_QIF_BYTE_SIZE as the
> maximum size for array 'buf'. Thanks to Adam Thomson for the
> feedback on this.
> - Update changelog based on Adam's comments.
>
> drivers/power/supply/da9150-fg.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/power/supply/da9150-fg.c b/drivers/power/supply/da9150-fg.c
> index 8b8ce97..7ea2188 100644
> --- a/drivers/power/supply/da9150-fg.c
> +++ b/drivers/power/supply/da9150-fg.c
> @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ struct da9150_fg {
> static u32 da9150_fg_read_attr(struct da9150_fg *fg, u8 code, u8 size)
>
> {
> - u8 buf[size];
> + u8 buf[DA9150_QIF_LONG_SIZE];
> u8 read_addr;
> u32 res = 0;
> int i;
> @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static void da9150_fg_write_attr(struct da9150_fg *fg, u8 code, u8 size,
> u32 val)
>
> {
> - u8 buf[size];
> + u8 buf[DA9150_QIF_LONG_SIZE];
> u8 write_addr;
> int i;
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>

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