On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 7:27 AM, Gustavo A. R. Silva <gust...@embeddedor.com> wrote: > In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLAs and replace them > with fixed-length arrays instead. > > From a security viewpoint, the use of Variable Length Arrays can be > a vector for stack overflow attacks. Also, in general, as the code > evolves it is easy to lose track of how big a VLA can get. Thus, we > can end up having segfaults that are hard to debug. > > Also, fixed as part of the directive to remove all VLAs from > the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621 > > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gust...@embeddedor.com> > --- > drivers/rtc/rtc-s5m.c | 14 ++++++++------ > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k...@kernel.org> Best regards, Krzysztof
