Re: [PATCH v2] crypto/ecc: Actually remove stack VLA usage

[Herbert Xu]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 09:55:44AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On the quest to remove all VLAs from the kernel[1], this avoids VLAs
> by just using the maximum allocation size (4 bytes) for stack arrays.
> All the VLAs in ecc were either 3 or 4 bytes (or a multiple), so just
> make it 4 bytes all the time. Initialization routines are adjusted to
> check that ndigits does not end up larger than the arrays.
> 
> This includes a removal of the earlier attempt at this fix from
> commit a963834b4742 ("crypto/ecc: Remove stack VLA usage")
> 
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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