linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] bfa: remove VLA

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Date:   Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:37:20 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Stephen Kitt <steve@....org>
Cc:     hare@...e.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bfa: remove VLA


Stephen,

> bfad_bsg.c uses a variable-length array declaration to measure the
> size of a putative array; this can be replaced by the product of the
> size of an element and the number of elements, avoiding the VLA
> altogether.
>
> -		sizeof(wwn_t[iocmd->nports])) != BFA_STATUS_OK) {
> +		sizeof(wwn_t) * iocmd->nports) != BFA_STATUS_OK) {

These parentheses made me blurry eyed but it's actually OK.

Applied to 4.17/scsi-queue.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering