linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH][next] scsi: mpt3sas: Replace unnecessary dynamic allocation with a static one

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Message-Id: <161612513553.25210.11895910880367586236.b4-ty@oracle.com>
Date:   Thu, 18 Mar 2021 23:46:34 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Sathya Prakash <sathya.prakash@...adcom.com>,
        Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@...adcom.com>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Suganath Prabu Subramani 
        <suganath-prabu.subramani@...adcom.com>
Cc:     "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@...adcom.com,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] scsi: mpt3sas: Replace unnecessary dynamic allocation with a static one

On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 17:59:51 -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:

> Dynamic memory allocation isn't actually needed and it can be
> replaced by statically allocating memory for struct object
> io_unit_pg3 with 36 hardcoded entries for its GPIOVal array.
> 
> Also, this helps the with ongoing efforts to enable -Warray-bounds
> by fixing the following warning:
> 
> [...]

Applied to 5.13/scsi-queue, thanks!

[1/1] scsi: mpt3sas: Replace unnecessary dynamic allocation with a static one
      https://git.kernel.org/mkp/scsi/c/a1c4d7741323

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering