Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] kasan: support alloca() poisoning

[Andrey Ryabinin]

On 12/04/2017 07:42 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I don't think we are using alloca in kernel mode code, and we shouldn't.
> What do I miss?  Is this hidden support for on-stack VLAs?  I thought
> we'd get rid of them as well.
> 

Yes, this is for on-stack VLA. Last time I checked, we still had a few.