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Gustavo A. R. Silva authored
In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA. In this particular case use macro ARRAY_SIZE so the length of array _bo_ can be computed at preprocessing time. 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/2018/3/7/621Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180313143151.GA27486@embeddedgus
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