linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: libosd: Remove VLA usage

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Date:   Mon, 14 May 2018 22:33:27 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Boaz Harrosh <ooo@...ctrozaur.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: libosd: Remove VLA usage


Kees,

> On the quest to remove all VLAs from the kernel[1] this rearranges the
> code to avoid a VLA warning under -Wvla (gcc doesn't recognize "const"
> variables as not triggering VLA creation). Additionally cleans up variable
> naming to avoid 80 character column limit.

Applied to 4.18/scsi-queue. Thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering