In preparation to enabling -Wvla, remove VLA. In this particular case directly use macro NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE instead of local variable cmdline_size. Also, remove cmdline_size as it is not actually useful anymore.
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/2018/3/7/621 Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gust...@embeddedor.com> --- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/ls_ucode_msgqueue.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/ls_ucode_msgqueue.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/ls_ucode_msgqueue.c index 6f10b09..2da147b 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/ls_ucode_msgqueue.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/secboot/ls_ucode_msgqueue.c @@ -80,12 +80,12 @@ acr_ls_msgqueue_post_run(struct nvkm_msgqueue *queue, struct nvkm_falcon *falcon, u32 addr_args) { struct nvkm_device *device = falcon->owner->device; - u32 cmdline_size = NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE; - u8 buf[cmdline_size]; + u8 buf[NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE]; - memset(buf, 0, cmdline_size); + memset(buf, 0, NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE); nvkm_msgqueue_write_cmdline(queue, buf); - nvkm_falcon_load_dmem(falcon, buf, addr_args, cmdline_size, 0); + nvkm_falcon_load_dmem(falcon, buf, addr_args, + NVKM_MSGQUEUE_CMDLINE_SIZE, 0); /* rearm the queue so it will wait for the init message */ nvkm_msgqueue_reinit(queue); -- 2.7.4
