linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] EDAC, thunderx: Remove VLA usage

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Date:   Mon, 9 Jul 2018 11:38:08 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Jan Glauber <jglauber@...ium.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        linux-edac@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EDAC, thunderx: Remove VLA usage

On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 01:42:16PM +0200, Jan Glauber wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 11:48:50AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > In the quest to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this
> > switches to using a kmalloc-allocated buffer instead of stack space.
> > This should be fine since the existing routine is allocating memory
> > too.
> > 
> > [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1RqZWA@mail.gmail.com
> > 
> > Cc: David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
> > Cc: Jan Glauber <jglauber@...ium.com>
> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
> > Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>
> > Cc: linux-edac@...r.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> 
> Acked-by: Jan Glauber <jglauber@...ium.com>

Applied, thanks.

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