[PATCH] pktgen: Remove VLA usage

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Fri Mar 09 2018 - 00:46:10 EST


In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA usage and replace it
with a fixed-length array instead.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
David,

I'm not sure how often this function is being called and,
depending on the frequency it may be worth to use
dynamic memory allocation instead?

Thanks
--
Gustavo

net/core/pktgen.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c
index d81bddd..e2d6ae3 100644
--- a/net/core/pktgen.c
+++ b/net/core/pktgen.c
@@ -907,7 +907,7 @@ static ssize_t pktgen_if_write(struct file *file,

if (debug) {
size_t copy = min_t(size_t, count, 1023);
- char tb[copy + 1];
+ char tb[1024];
if (copy_from_user(tb, user_buffer, copy))
return -EFAULT;
tb[copy] = 0;
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2.7.4