Re: [PATCH v2] pcm_native: Remove VLA usage

From: Takashi Sakamoto
Date: Wed Mar 28 2018 - 19:43:09 EST


Hi,

On Mar 29 2018 07:24, Kyle Spiers wrote:
As part of the effort to remove VLAs from the kernel[1], this changes
the allocation of the rstamps array from being on the stack to being
kcalloc()ed. This also allows for the removal of the explicit zeroing
loop.

Signed-off-by: Kyle Spiers <kyle@xxxxxxxxx>
---
sound/core/pcm_native.c | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

This bug was already fixed at a commit 5730f9f744cf ('
ALSA: pcm: Remove VLA usage')[1][2].

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/sound/core/pcm_native.c?h=for-next&id=5730f9f744cfe20b771adc33f3b476b95d3eebba
[2] http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2018-March/133268.html


Thanks

Takashi Sakamoto