Re: [PATCH v3] isofs compress: Remove VLA usage

[Al Viro]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 11:15:28PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 17:51 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 5:33 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 04:45:32PM -0700, Kyle Spiers wrote:
> > > > As part of the effort to remove VLAs from the kernel[1], this changes
> > > > the allocation of the bhs and pages arrays from being on the stack to being
> > > > kcalloc()ed. This also allows for the removal of the explicit zeroing
> > > > of bhs.
> > > > 
> > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
> > > 
> > > Do you even bother reading the feedback given to such patches?  I'm just
> > > curious,
> > 
> > He made a tool mistake (sent v2 again) -- please see v4.
> 
> No worries but Kyle didn't just mistakenly resend v2.
> It was a v3 with a different below the dashes changelog.
> 
> Kyle, it would be good if next time you were to add a
> listing of changes in each revision below the dashes.

Shit happens...

Al, fully expecting to discover having made something spectacularly bonehead
2 minutes after sending a patch out - happens often enough.