Re: [PATCH] RAID/s390: Remove VLA usage

From: Martin Schwidefsky
Date: Wed Jul 04 2018 - 02:48:17 EST


On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 12:52:21 -0700
Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In the quest to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this moves
> the "$#" replacement from being an argument to being inside the function,
> which avoids generating VLAs.
>
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1RqZWA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> lib/raid6/s390vx.uc | 34 ++++++++++++++++++----------------
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Added to s390:features for the next merge window. Thanks.

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Martin.

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