On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 13:39:04 -0700 Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
> On the quest to remove all VLAs from the kernel[1] this adjusts several > cases where allocation is made after an array of structures that points > back into the allocation. The allocations are changed to perform explicit > calculations instead of using a Variable Length Array in a structure. > Additionally, this lets Clang compile this code now, since Clang does not > support VLAIS[2]. > > [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621 > [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/23/500 > > ... > > I not sure the best way to test this. Kconfig implies I need special hardware? Yeah, I was wondering about that. It's a tricky-looking patch. Boaz, are you able to give it a spin? Thanks.
