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

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Date:   Fri, 16 Mar 2018 23:56:32 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@...rochip.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] crypto/ecc: Remove stack VLA usage

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@...omium.org>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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