netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] Bluetooth: Remove VLA usage in aes

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Date:   Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:45:44 +0100
From:   Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Cc:     Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Bluetooth: Remove VLA usage in aes_cmac

Hi Gustavo,

> In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA and replace it
> with dynamic memory allocation instead.
> 
> The use of stack Variable Length Arrays needs to be avoided, as they
> can be a vector for stack exhaustion, which can be both a runtime bug
> or a security flaw. Also, in general, as code evolves it is easy to
> lose track of how big a VLA can get. Thus, we can end up having runtime
> failures that are hard to debug.
> 
> Also, fixed as part of the directive to remove all VLAs from
> the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@...eddedor.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Fix memory leak in previous patch.
> 
> net/bluetooth/smp.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

patch has been applied to bluetooth-next tree.

Regards

Marcel