mmc: pwrseq: Use kmalloc_array instead of stack VLA
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 (kernel Oops) or a security flaw (overwriting memory beyond the stack). 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. As part of the directive[1] to remove all VLAs from the kernel, and build with -Wvla. Currently driver is using a VLA declared using the number of descriptors. This array is used to store integer values and is later used as an argument to `gpiod_set_array_value_cansleep()` This can be avoided by using `kmalloc_array()` to allocate memory for the array of integer values. Memory is free'd before return from function. >From the code it appears that it is safe to sleep so we can use GFP_KERNEL (based _cansleep() suffix of function `gpiod_set_array_value_cansleep()`. It can be expected that this patch will result in a small increase in overhead due to the use of `kmalloc_array()` [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
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