linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2] dmaengine: dmatest: Remove use of VLAs

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Date:   Mon, 16 Apr 2018 21:06:34 +0530
From:   Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:     Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
Cc:     Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] dmaengine: dmatest: Remove use of VLAs

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 06:02:16PM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
> There's an ongoing effort to remove VLAs from the kernel
> (https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621) to eventually turn on -Wvla.
> The test already pre-allocates some buffers with kmalloc so turn
> the two VLAs in to pre-allocated kmalloc buffers.

Applied, thanks

-- 
~Vinod