[PATCH] drm/sun4i: Remove VLA usage

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at bootlin.com
Wed Jul 4 15:44:37 UTC 2018


On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 11:47:40AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> In the quest to remove all stack VLA usage from the kernel[1], this
> switches to using a kmalloc allocation and moves all the size calculations
> to the start to do an allocation. If an upper bounds on the mode timing
> calculations could be determined, a fixed stack size could be used instead.
> 
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzCG-zNmZwX4A2FQpadafLfEzK6CC=qPXydAacU1RqZWA@mail.gmail.com
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>

Applied, thanks!
Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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