linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] aic7xxx/aic79xx: remove VLAs

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Date:   Thu, 15 Mar 2018 00:35:16 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Stephen Kitt <steve@....org>
Cc:     hare@...e.com, keescook@...omium.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] aic7xxx/aic79xx: remove VLAs


Stephen,

> In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLAs and replace them with
> fixed-length arrays instead.
>
> The arrays fixed here, using the number of constant sections, aren't
> really VLAs, but they appear so to the compiler. Replace the array
> sizes with a pre-processor-level constant instead using ARRAY_SIZE.

Applied to 4.17/scsi-queue.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering