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

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Fri Mar 16 2018 - 11:56:50 EST


On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 01:57:02PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On the quest to remove all VLAs from the kernel[1], this switches to
> a pair of kmalloc regions instead of using the stack. This also moves
> the get_random_bytes() after all allocations (and drops the needless
> "nbytes" variable).
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied. Thanks.
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