Re: [PATCH] drivers: net: wireless: ath: ath9: dfs: remove VLA usage

From: Miguel Ojeda
Date: Tue Mar 13 2018 - 21:39:25 EST


On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 12:12 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The problem is that it's not a "constant expression", so the compiler
> frontend still yells about it under -Wvla. I would characterize this
> mainly as a fix for "accidental VLA" or "misdetected VLA" or something
> like that. AIUI, there really isn't a functional change here.

C++11's constexpr variables would be nice to have.

Cheers,
Miguel