netdev - Re: [PATCH v4] mac80211: LLVMLinux: Remove VLAIS usage from mac80211

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Message-ID: <1395403160.4164.0.camel@jlt4.sipsolutions.net>
Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:59:20 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	behanw@...verseincode.com
Cc:	linville@...driver.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	pageexec@...email.hu,
	Jan-Simon Möller <dl9pf@....de>,
	Vinícius Tinti <viniciustinti@...il.com>,
	Mark Charlebois <charlebm@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] mac80211: LLVMLinux: Remove VLAIS usage from mac80211

On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 23:39 -0700, behanw@...verseincode.com wrote:
> From: Jan-Simon Möller <dl9pf@....de>
> 
> Replaced the use of a Variable Length Array In Struct (VLAIS) with a C99
> compliant equivalent. This is the original VLAIS struct.
> 
> struct {
> 	struct aead_request     req;
> 	u8                      priv[crypto_aead_reqsize(tfm)];
> } aead_req;
> 
> This patch instead allocates the appropriate amount of memory using an char
> array.
> 
> The new code can be compiled with both gcc and clang.

Applied.

johannes

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